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Riyo would look relieved that he was back to 'normal'... If his hands weren't so awkwardly placed... And the squeezing. Every time he squeezed, her ears gave a twitch and her face turned a little redder. She couldn't really say why it bothered her, if that's really what it was doing.

For a moment, she looked like she was about to say something. Maybe ask him what he was doing or to please stop. But at that moment, she was... Oh, what's the word, speechless?

So instead, she just lifted up her hand and squeezed right back. Or, awkwardly tried to. It didn't seem to work as well or have the same effect. "... Huh." Was all she could manage to say. How did she not notice that before? Women had big lumps on their chest while men generally didn't. Maybe that's what made them men.

aahhh....the water felt nice on her skin, replenishing the moisture she had lost in the desert. It was a little hot, but she wasn't about to complain. Although it was really noisy for some reason. Looking up to see what was going on, she noticed that someone was staring at her...and this someone was very familiar.

Her mind went blank. There was no way...There was no way it could be who she thought it was...nope it was, he had the small little birdy wings on his back.

"Atticus?!?!" she said, almost standing up to see if she really was seeing things. "What are you...."

Suddenly, something clicked in her head, and she looked down at her state of undress, and then up at his state of undress. She blinked for a moment, and then realised why he may of been staring at her.

A few options went through her mind. She could squeak and hide herself like some dainty little woman and blush. Or, she could do what she usually did...

Her left hand curled into a fist, and her expression changed from mildly surprised to somewhat pissed off. "what the hell ARE YOU STARING AT?!" She shouted, and aimed a haymaker at his face.

"I... What?!" Atticus exclaimed as best as his voice would let him. He covered his eyes with one of his hands and shook his head. "I swear. You women rant and rave about a man's mind being in the gutter, yet you're always the ones to accuse us of thus, which means you were already there to begin with!"

He kept his hand over his eyes, just so he didn't accidentally glance and get his lights knocked out. "Did you ever think it could be the fact that you disappeared and we haven't seen you in a long time? Hmmmmm?"

Riyo's ears fell back against her head as he laughed. He was making her feel uncomfortable and she was making him chuckle. As his hand moved to hers, it looked as if her cheeks grew rosier and she stopped trying to squeeze. Perhaps awkward feelings weren't completely alien to Riyo. It was weird, being so close like this. Rather intimidating, she supposed. Couldn't put a finger on exactly why... "So is that the difference between genders? Chests?" She asked to try and take her mind off those feelings, not particularly concerned with the answer she'd get.

To anyone else, it was probably a rather obvious question that could be answered with a strong "no". But being alone since an early age had left her so out of the loop she could barely notice there was one.

"I've never seen you be so shy," Neko mused. To her question he gave some thought on how to answer. "Its....one difference." He admitted though he wasn't sure how far he could push his luck before Riyo might run off. This was a testing game.

"Are you going to have sex?" Came an overly cheerful voice from over Neko's shoulder. The sudden sound had him whipping his head around to see who was there. What he found was a bright eyed impish looking little girl, more human than any of the dragons he had seen so far, except for the tiny horns the peeked out from beneath her bangs.

"Sex in the bath! Sex in the bath!" Chimed another voice. From behind the first girl appeared another one completely identical to the first. Twins.

"We were sent here by the Lady that works the help desk. We were instructed to pick up your clothes." Explained the first one.

"Pick up clothes, pick up clothes!" Chimed in the second as she hoped to her feet. Her gaze instantly fell on Yuki who was still in his attire. For a long moment she seemed to stare at him before she hopped over toward him, a wide grin on her face. "Time to get undressed. We need your clothes!" She sang as she reached for his shirt.

Neko was about to say something. Maybe deny that he had that intention, but it was never for certain as he heard a name ring through the air and he looked over to see a familiar stranger. "P....Poke?" What an odd sight, he hadn't been sure they would find her, let alone here of all places.

The fear of being attacked and stripped was gone... So Yuki believed. The pounding of his heart seemed to subside. Thank God, maybe he'd be left alone. As much as he knew he needed a bath; he wasn't taking it with others. Surely they had private baths wherever it was they were going to be sleeping...

His gaze wandered, and as luck would have it his eyes settled on Riyo and Neko. Was he...? Yuki blinked. Yes. Yes, Neko was doing exactly what he thought he saw. Dumbfounded at his nerve, Yuki wasn't even able to be angry. Not yet, at least.

All of a sudden, there were children standing over them. Nice. Even worse that kids in this place knew what sex was.

In seconds, one of the girls apparently decided she was going to make an attempt at taking his clothes. Yuki flinched when she grabbed hold of his shirt, jumping back from her grasp and practically ripping his shirt from his torso and throwing it at the child as though believing that one article of clothing would keep her occupied while he tried to escape.

"Yeah, well we didn't expect we'd be getting so up close and personal with each other when they mentioned a bath house to us, either." Atticus slowly lowered his hand when he felt the threat level go down, but didn't look directly at her.

When Poke motioned over in a different direction, Atticus looked reluctantly. He... Couldn't really say he liked what he saw. In fact, it bothered him. "What the hell?" He asked in that usual nonchalant tone. Way to make an already awkward situation ridiculous. Just when his cheeks had almost returned to their original color, his eyes catch something that, honestly, he didn't care to see.

But what made it even worse is when the two dragon twins appeared out of nowhere and started chanting about sex in the bath. "... I don't know how much more of this I can take." He spoke to both Blade and Poke.

Riyo didn't really have a verbal excuse for why she was being so "shy". Something just felt... Strange about all this. It didn't really stop her from raising an eyebrow at his answer, though. "T-there's more?" She supposed there were. Looking at him carefully, he had broader shoulders, a bigger frame, a slightly different face... But that wasn't too big of a difference.

Her ears perked up when the small child asked the off-color question. Where the hell had they come from?! And... Sex?

Wait wait. Riyo had heard this word somewhere before. She remembers it being whispered between people every once in awhile in towns, but they never said more than that. "W-what?" She finally managed to ask, though she had a sinking feeling she might not want to know based on the glances they were getting from everyone else.

"I don't know either," groaned Blade. He didn't know what was going on between Riyo and Neko and he didn't really want to know either. Poke's comment on their actions certainly didn't help at all.

Rubbing the back of his neck, he shook his head slowly before glancing indirectly at Poke. At the mention of Yuki, he looked over and saw that he was still having issues getting undressed... not that he could blame the man that much. But even Atticus had jumped in.

"Help him how? Sure this is an awkward as hell situation but if he doesn't bath now he probably won't later. Besides later on this bath will probably have a bunch of random dragons using it," he replied. Without a naked woman RIGHT in front of him, his mind was being considerably more clear. The feeling of embarrassment had also dulled out some, but it definitely was still there.