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Sunstrike smiled again and sat up. "Alrighty, and thanks again Roisin."

Aiysin...Roisin...Sunstrike was just collecting "sin's" all over the place...in a stretch even Shin could kinda be sin...Sun looked at the body wading through the water towards them.

Okay...maybe it wasn't too much of a stretch, there was definatly something sinful about all that.

"Probably best if I go and get dressed now." He said it almost half heartedly, as if he wanted another dip in the water...then again, he'd probably be accused of being alchoholic then...

"Grab a couple of towels, we'll toga it. Is you're room anywhere nearby?" Sunstrike snatched another clean towel and wrapped it around him, then turned to look at Shin, careful not to walk too heavily on the now slightly warm and fuzzy feeling leg.

"I know it's a good hike up to my room, but we should be okay, yeah?" Those eyes had swirled itself back into some semblance of sense, and a clear intelligence shot through with some other undeciferable emotion. It didn't seem to cross his mind at all that by offering to go to Shin's room...might have been an offer of other things as well.

"Mmmm...ah well, s'not like we're totally indecent...maybe we could charge for the exposure." And with that, Sun started to limp in completely the wrong direction.

In all honesty he wasn't thinking terribly close about how little clothing he was wearing, just that he probably needed a bed before having to face Aiysin and whoever she pulled out of the lush woodwork to talk to him.

He blinked, and realized he was going wrong, turned around and walked back to Shin.

"I'd best follow you."

Sun gave Shin a sideways look.

"If you think walking around but for a towel is bad...how bad is it if someone see's you giving me a piggy back ride."

He put two palms against Shin's shoulder blades and pushed them out to the very edges of the elfs shoulders, just...petting for a second, before he stood back and waved a hand.

"I'll keep up if you keep it leisurely, if I start to collapse you've my permission to elfhandle me into some kind of submission, but not until then."

"I'll tell them I threatened to fondle you in public, they're only healers in the end, Shin, a force to be reckoned with, in an emergency, but they can't force people to do everything that they want, just tell them what's best and let their patients go from there."

Sun remembered the dark look on Roisin's face. "Well," He said finally, embarrasment leaking through. "Maybe not all healers..." Sun had already started limping in the right direction this time, and he practically moved smoothly, even up all the steps. The water had done more then just get him drunk, and he wasn't completely normal either. While away from Vahn, the process would be slower, it still hadn't stopped completely.

"They tell you what happened to me?" Sun knew Shin would know, and when he got an affirmative he continued on. "I was daft, trying to armwrestle that...person, when I just should have given up and either left or ran on two good legs. Can't win a cockfight with someone twice your size, no matter how skilled you are."

He'd been stupid, really, but the thought of Vahn still broken in the other room, even if it hadn't been the other man, was a real nightmare for him. He hadn't told Aiysin how he'd earlier found Vahn after Ra'kar had a go at him.

The powers that be for HoH had figured him out a little too well for comfort, half of Sun realized he probably deserved worse then the damage, the leg, and the sacrificed wings.

Sun had gotten off lucky, again. Karma was gonna be a b***h if he kept escaping these situations with most his body intact. And Sun was worried that it'd be so much, it would spill over into the people he cared about.

Part of him realized that KB could be some of that catching up to him, and the thought left him a little cold. There had been something way too close to predatory in that man's eyes, darkly beautiful but scary like mouse to snake scary. If Tomorrow hadn't interferred, the real worry had been that Sun might not have refused what would have happened next.

Gonna have to confront that as well eventually... Hopefully where no one would get caught in the crossfire. That would be difficult with Vahn being close...and for the first time Sun wondered if it would be too late to distance himself. Even the thought left him nearly gasping as his heart wrenched. s**t!

((I really need to try and get on here more regularly dammit sweatdrop ))

Juunikyuu sat in her private quarters. Although she had a welcome basket in the quarters of the neko-jin's mistress she had felt the need for quiet solitude. A lot had changed for the Senshi over the last couple of months. Perhaps the most apparent was that although the mystical lights within her chambers cast a glittering light and cast shadows over the room the Senshi cast no shadow. Indeed she no longer possessed one having given it up to save the very shadow senshi that had spawned from within her and nearly driven her to insanity. Fuin had fallen into a week long sleep after the essence ritual had been completed and as soon as she had come to she had fought her way out of the chamber despite the protective spells Juunikyuu had put in place and hadn't been seen by the Senshi since. That was not to say that Juunikyuu did not know where she was, indeed by sharing her essence she had taken a part of Fuin into herself just as Fuin now had part of the Angel within her.

Slowly Juunikyuu lifted her hand to her left breast and pressed against her chest, feeling her own heart beating away slowly and she traced out the shadow symbol she knew was there, hidden away by her loose fitting white top. It was only a small symbol and it did not give her much trouble but still. She was now a marked Angel. And she knew what that meant. Sighing she tipped her head back and flopped onto the bed. Her long purple locks were gone. She'd cut them off earlier in the week as a means of emotional release. She had only ever cut her hair once before then and that was when her beautiful hair was savagely cut off when she was thrown from the heavens. It had proved a highly draining state of affairs but the weight she felt lifted from her was immense. Running a hand through her shortened locks the Senshi couldn't help but smile.

Eventually, after laying still for a while the Senshi decided that it was probably best to get out into the grounds, perhaps for a walk around the many ponds. Juuni was currently peacefully sleeping within the bodies subconscious but Juunikyuu knew that when she woke she'd want to go out. The recent events had been hard on the both of them and the little neko-jin had been so strong, the Senshi was very proud of her.

"Well, the outside isn't going to come to me..."

Juunikyuu got to her feet, dusted down her light pink skirt and heading for the door. Just before she left she plucked a large daisy from a vase on a small table and deftly entwined it into her hair, just behind her ear. And then she was out, into the gardens and the sunshine. Maybe she'd meet someone she knew. Or didn't. It wouldn't really matter, Juunikyuu would welcome the company.

Juunikyuu had grown tired of her wanderings around the Dark Sakura grounds and had returned to her chambers. Her hand lingered on the charred door handle where Fuin had forced her way out, flaming with rage. She sighed inwardly and ran a hand through her shortened hair before pulling her clothes off and stepping into the small en suite bathroom to have a shower.

Within the shower Juunikyuu stod motionless, leaning against the cooled tiled wall. The water trickled down her body and felt strange over the two scars on her back. Although she had not seen them yet herself the scars were now traced in the deepest ebony black. Lifting her right hand the Senshi traced over the shadow mark that had appeared just beside her left breast before turning and allowing the water to wash over her face before switching the water off and stepping back out into her chambers.

Despite having just returned Juunikyuu felt something calling her back outside and she was not one to refuse such a cool. She slipped on a pair of jeans and a top before reaching for her light jacket and heading out the door.