[ Astarion washes up while Iorveth, the perfect cat person, allows him some time to himself. It's strange touching his body after what they've just done, and stranger still that he finds he doesn't despise his body for it. In the past, he'd dealt with the aftermath of sex and sacrifice in one of two ways: complete and total numbness or sitting in the cold bath and scrubbing his skin raw in abject disgust. He doesn't feel numb now, but he also doesn't feel like rubbing his flesh into redness with a washcloth. This is the body that has betrayed him over and over again, yes, but it's also the body that Iorveth loves, so perhaps he ought to try treating it kindly.
He takes advantage of Iorveth's quiet leisure to do just that, taking his time in the bath for the first time in a long time. Instead of rushing through his bathing routine, he lets himself soak, feeling the warm water relax the eternally tense muscles of his back. Finally, after waiting long enough for his fingers to start getting soft and pruny, he turns to look at Iorveth, crossing his arms over the side of the tub and resting his chin in the nest they create. ]
Don't you look like the perfect little housewife?
[ Sitting by his side, embroidering. It's a gentle tease, a fond one. He knows Iorveth would rankle at the thought of being anyone's kept man, which is why the image is so adorable in the first place. Iorveth: warrior, elf, embroiderer. ]
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He takes advantage of Iorveth's quiet leisure to do just that, taking his time in the bath for the first time in a long time. Instead of rushing through his bathing routine, he lets himself soak, feeling the warm water relax the eternally tense muscles of his back. Finally, after waiting long enough for his fingers to start getting soft and pruny, he turns to look at Iorveth, crossing his arms over the side of the tub and resting his chin in the nest they create. ]
Don't you look like the perfect little housewife?
[ Sitting by his side, embroidering. It's a gentle tease, a fond one. He knows Iorveth would rankle at the thought of being anyone's kept man, which is why the image is so adorable in the first place. Iorveth: warrior, elf, embroiderer. ]