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Date Posted: 20:25:18 03/12/02 Tue
Author: Rowan
Subject: Just having a little fun
In reply to: Saras 's message, "For the best" on 11:37:06 03/12/02 Tue

Rowan lay on his back in the water, staring idly up at the ceiling. Laughter and playful shouting rang out in the air, bouncing and echoing off the high ceiling and stone walls, but Rowan was feeling too lazy to watch the antics of Tia and Corum. Besides, he’d decided that the only safe place to keep his eyes was up. Here he'd been, innocently enjoying the surrounding scenery, letting his tired muscles relax in the soothing warm waters of the spring…and BAM! Topless woman alert.

He didn’t know what Jade was trying to do, shocking an innocent guy like that, flouncing around with her breasts floating about in the water as if it were the most natural thing. Well, okay, so it was about as pretty damned natural as she could be, but humans just didn’t do that. When he was younger, sure, he used to go to the bathhouses all the time, to socialize and gossip and ogle the naked bodies of his fellow aristocrats, but those were elves. He’d quickly learned once he’d left his homeland that people weren’t generally comfortable with public nudity.

Yep, it must have been a looong time ago, because he’d suddenly found himself wishing this water weren’t so warm. And the woman was pawing all over Erlic for some ungodly reason. Damn it, what the hell was wrong with this world?? Grumpy old ex-assassin homebody over there got the beautiful bald chick, while he got to de-virginize a lanky sixteen year old kid! Of course, he’d been thrown to the ground by Tia not five minutes later, but that had gotten interrupted, so it didn’t quite count. Surely, twice in one day was too much to ask—especially with two different people.

“I’ve done better,” he muttered to himself, if only to get his self-esteem back up to its normal levels. He finally tired of floating around out there by himself, so he righted himself and swam back to shore, perking up at the sight of Jeremy, Saras, and Marz all hovering about one another, obviously engaged in an exciting conversation of some sort. Or maybe he just imagined it was exciting because he was trying to get his mind off other things…never mind. He raised an eyebrow at Marz, as the kid eased himself down on the floor, clad in nothing but his barely there underwear.

Immediately, Rowan shifted his eyes away from the boy’s youthful, well-muscled body, before his own could react to the sight. He was really feeling like a teenager again for some odd reason; he guessed because he’d spent so much time around humans the past few years. The humans of this world obviously weren’t half as modest as the ones on Elendor were.

He turned to glance up at Saras and Jeremy instead, wrinkling his nose at the odor Jeremy’s cigarette was pumping steadily into the air. Seeing the genie pull his legs out of the water made him frown, since he’d been entertaining the thought of pulling the pretty little creature into the water. He’d freaked out so much last time that a repeat performance was bound to be entertaining.

So, after waiting for Saras to finish speaking, Rowan simply hopped up next to him, seating himself between the sprawled out feet of Marz before throwing a companionable arm around the genie. “Not talking about love and lust again, are we?” he asked, winking over at Jeremy. He patted Saras comfortingly on the shoulder, even though the genie didn’t really look like he needed any comforting right now.

He sighed melodramatically. “Don’t tell me you need me to show you the difference, too, huh, kiddo?” Before Saras could answer, he shook his head with false determination. “Too bad. I’ve got better things to teach you, anyway. Haven’t learned how to swim yet, have you?” There was no immediate answer, but Rowan grinned anyway. “Good.”

With that, he jumped back into the water, pushing the genie in with him. They both came up at the same time, Rowan still grinning but Saras coughing and spluttering, his long red hair draped all over his face.

“Oh, cheer up,” Rowan said with a laugh. He reached and held on to the genie, who clutched at him as if he were going to drown any second. “Woah, not so tight!” Rowan hissed, trying to pry the little white fingers off his arms. He winced at the hurt look Saras gave him, wondering why the silly creature hated the water so much.

“Now don’t start crying again,” he urged, shooting Jeremy a panicked look. He hated it when people cried. Of course, when he’d caught Jeremy crying, he'd been a very naughty boy, as his mother used to say when the rumors would circulate around town about his latest liaison. Intuition told him that he couldn’t take Saras off to a corner and comfort him the same way, though he wasn’t sure why. It was just one of those things. And Rowan always listened to intuition. Laurel always told him he had precious little common sense, so hell, what else should he listen to?

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