Wedding at Fire Shrimp Village an L5R PbP

Some odd feeling dragged Saisei to the bath house in the same time he nearly got pulled underneath the other day. Once into the pool, he holds his breath and sinks his head underwater, trying to recompose the vision he had earlier today. Feeling like someone else.

Some bubbles pop at the pool's surface as he keeps his air.

OOC: Athletics + Stamina or Meditation + Void check at TN 13.

His wide lungs manage to keep him down there as his heartbeat soothes.

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D4, EE, Athletics/Stamina TN 15 (13 +2haunted): 4d10 17

He feels at peace and his mind clear before he feels someone else enter the bath. By the looks it seems like a woman at least from under the water.

Saisei re-emerges to greet whomever entered with some suspense.

The bath is… different a luxurious bath located with a view of a city spread out before them and the design is very Scorpion. Across from him is a woman of good breeding with fine long dark hair up in a bun a she spread water over her arms and said, “Eventually our soldiers are going to realize that we seem to enter the baths at the same time. Think of the scandal,” she teased.

“Winter has moved so quickly, my love. I curse the days for moving so quickly.”

Saisei smiles opens up, even if it was not his own –– or was it from another life?

He feels his body relaxing and moving slowly towards her. Trying to control it, he manages to speak, "What about Family, and the future. Don't you long for that, too?"

"I do not dare to hope for that which is beyond even our grasp. Though you could be a dashing bride," she teased.

"But still," she said placing a hand to his chest, "we have the now."

He grins. Doens't matter if it is dream, it feels real and she's hot as heck. It counts. Specially when one, well, is a virgin.

"So. The now..." Honorable courage takes place in his heart. He takes her hand with his and plants a kiss on her fingers, whispering, closer, now, "I love when you say my name."

In what will become an embrace, he takes advantage of the movement to place his lips on her uncovered neck.

“My mighty Hida Gusari, he,” she shivered and then continued, “He who could never beat in battle, has slain me in the bedroom.”

“But,” she said pulling back, “They will have to dig two graves, as they say for I will take you with me.” She followed that with a deep kiss.

"No need for graves when I'm going to burn us out both from the heat you instill in me." He says while...

/ftb?

Some time later... maybe.

"Don't mind me, samurai-sama, just going to clean myself you keep doing whatver it... just clean up after yourself," the old man said as he slid into the water.

He looks to the man and to the environment to understand if he's still mighty Hida Gusari at a Scorpion bath house or poor young Saisei perhaps doing something odd like air tongue kissing his imaginary waifu back at Fire Shrimp Village.

Definitely the latter.

He snaps back to the real world and clears his throat, noticing his odd behavior. He bows in greeting, but also as an apology and slowly drifts away from the pool to dry himself up and quickly get out of the man's eyesight.