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Relena let out a desperate signed as they finally reached the top of the stairs. She had lost count after hundreds steps and was offically out of breath. She took a deep breath to ease the sting in her lungs, "There no way the elves are this fit!"

"The elves are extreme fit creatures," chimed Slifer, "but they are built for more extreme activities."

"Must be nice...," muttered Relena.

Relena pushed open the huge double door at the top of the staircase with both hands. The doors swung open into a huge room with elegant furniture and glass window. Everything had dragons encraved in the pieces. Two other staircase went to the outside and up the tree to the two branching off trees at the top.

"This is room is bigger than the farm house," said Relena nearly shouting, "And this is just the common room!"

She walked into the room and looked up to see two very comfort dragons on a bed of large pillows. The laid on two stone and wood balconies the extended into the room slightly. A small set of stair lead up to get dragon loft.

"These lofts are just rest area...the beds are up further in the tree," said Slifer.

She looked around and saw that stairs leading to the outside and up were the only sign of more rooms to come. This common room was alone an by itself. The bedrooms and other room must be up further into the tree.

Relena chuckled, "There is no bed though." She walked over to the staircase and looked down the tree. The were about 300 feet up the tree. Relena gulped, "Long way down..."

"You have been higher with me," insisted Silfer.

Relena nodded and looked up at the staircase that wrapped up around other side of the tree. She peered back into the common room from the outside at Wanda, "These stairs are easier. Come on."

She walked up the stairs thankful that they were not as steep and fewer in numbers. She entered the hallway that they lead too. She could see the other staircase on the other side of the hallway. A tunnel branched up at the middle into the trunk of the tree. She followed the tunnel until she came into another common area. This common area had two room off to the sides that could be seen as bedrooms. She decided she would look at them later.

Two hallways branched off toward back of the common room, one going down into the tree and the other going further up. She looked down the hallway and saw a kitchen and two other rooms. Something she would check out later. She took the hallway going up further into the tree until she came to a door. She opened and gasped.

"Their is a God," shouted Relena down the hallway hoping Wanda would hear here.

There before her sat a bathing area that had been carved into the side of the middle tree that branched off at the top. Branches wrapped around the bathing area giving it privacy. Half of the side of the tree trunk had been cut out for this bathing area. Stone pillars help the tree toop from breaking off or tipping over. She walked up to water edge and saw the water behing pumped from a system of wood and stone pipe that followed the trees trunks to the ground. Their must have been and underground water source. She dipped her fingers into the water and found it pleasently warm. A room was built into the side of the tree trunk and assume it was a bathroom/changing room.

Relena was a blur as she dove into the water, clothes and all. She swam down to the bottom of the pool and touched the rooted bottom. After a minute her lungs demand oxygen and she kicked off the bottom. She broke the surface and pushed her hair out of her face as she floated on her back.

"It is heavenly Wanda," said Relena, "How can men go days without a bath!"

She dipped under water once more and swam to the water edge. She peeled off her shirt and pants. A pair of shoes soon followed leaving Relena only in her undergarments, whic was only torn tank top and short-like panties. She kicked off the edge once more and floated her back.

Relena made her way to water edge were a tray of assorted items lay. She picked up the bottles and frowned, "There in elven...I think."

"Shampoo"

She picked up another bottle.

"Conditioner"

Another

"Oil"

Relena picked up a bottle that contained stones and grains of some sort, "Alright smarty pants...try this one."

"Scrubing stone for your skin," chimed her dragon quickly.

Relena signed as she set down the bottle. If everything was in elven they were going to have a problem. "It not as hard as it seem," said Silfer trying to give her confidence. Relena gave a smile and turned to Wanda, "Found the cleaning stuff..."

Relena looked up to see a chain. She wrapped her fingers around it and it gave slightly so she pulled it. Waves in water began to lap at her backside. She released the chain and turned around to see water dripping from above a very wet Wanda. Relena eyes widen, "Found the shower head...hehe."

Relena yelped and moved away. She grabbed a bottle of each liguid and sorts and moved over to the other end of the pool. She set the bottles down and pulled the other chain she had found. Water pool down from the top of the branches and into the water.

She stepped in and began to lather up her hair, "ah..feels good."

She tried all the bottles and in the end she never felt so...so..clean. Felt kinda odd to her but it was something she could get use to. She like the glow her skin gave off due to the oils. She pulled the chain again to stop the flow of water and turned to Wanda, "You should get clean...if feels wonderful especially after days of desert without a bath."

She stradded over to the edge to get out but when she reached the edge she let out a bloodcurling scream.

"Jesus Christ!"

Before her stood an male elf looked down at her naked form. She had to remove her clothing to clean. He duke into the soap spud filled water to hide herself.

The elf pulled out two boxes and set them down. He rose and bowed before leaving. Relena looked at Wanda then at the empty space were the elf had been.

"Okay..."

"Elves are very social type creatures...things such as this are not really a big deal to them," explained Slifer.

Relena chuckled. Well she wasn't an elf. She walked up to the boxes and open on. She gasped at what she saw. A beautiful set of robes laid folded neatly in the box. She picked them and felt the softness of the silk. She looked at Wanda, "I think we are suppose wear these."

She rose out of the water and stood on the ground. She pulled the robe over her head. The robe was a mixture of black and silver, colors that matched her dragon. It flowed down to her feet with sleeves that extended pasted the finger tips and foot more. The front had a long v-cut in it that went down to her belly-button. A brown leather string crissed-crossed up the opening to keep the robe from falling off her shoulders. She did a small spin and the flaps that trailed down the front of the robe spined with her. They wrapped around her body and slowly fell back into position when she stop. A black belt help the robes to frame her slender waist and show off her curves. The silk felt cool against skin.

Relena looked at her reflection in the mirror and blinked, "I am not sure I am old enough for this or not..."

Relena turned to get her other clothing but found them gone, "The man must have taken them."

She followed the hallway down to the level below the bathing area. She decided it was time to check out the bedrooms and Slifer. She could feel Slifer resting in a dragons bed. The feeling took to the right close door, which she opened and entered.

The room was as elegant as the rest of the large tree house they had seen. Alot of the furniture that was up next to the wall was built into the tree itself. Some piece of furniture were planted in the middle of the room but all the furniture has dragon engravings craved into the wood. She walked over to the bed and sat down on it. She was immediately met with wonderly soft fabric and comfort. The mattress had goose feathers in it and the sheet were made of silk and wool. A huge dragon graced the covering that drapped from the headboard to the footboard above the bed. The floor was mossed overed and gave relief to her tired feet. So that explained why they were not given shoes...there was no need. A large stain glass window filled most of the top of the ceiling letting in light the flitered it way through the branches above the glass. She moved off the bed and went her left were hundreds of varies sizes of pillow laced the floor. Two large curtain were pulled back to open the hole in the tree trunk to be able to see in.

Silfer arched her neck at Relena, clearly satisfy with her living arrangments. Relena could see a large tunnel that made it way from the back of the dwelling. She assume it lead to the huge holes the dragon had enter in when they first entered the house. She another hole that made a opening for the dragon look out off to see the outside. She saw stone work on the other side and made her way to front of the room were two double door rested. She opened them and walked out onto a balcony and looked out at the city as the sun set. Her dragon twisted its neck so she could looked at the view from her little cave from the hole that was made in one of its walls.

"Beautiful," exclaimed Slifer.

Relena leaned on the branches that made the railing of the balcony and nodded, "indeed...I never seen anything so beautiful...well the Spire Mountains come pretty damn close."

She turned around, having her back lean against the railing and looked into the bedroom. The colors of her dragon and brown and green tones gave the room its glow and beauty. She walked back into the room and pulled the curtain that mark the entery to the balcony to give some light. Light spilled into the room make the color shine bright. It gave a shadow design from the stain glass window above her. She wonder what Wanda room looked like as let her toes play in the moss covered floor. Was it as beautiful as hers?

Relena gave her dragon a loving pat on its nose, "Stay here and get the some rest." Her dragon nodded agreeingly and stretched out on the pillows giving a happy moan as she did. Relena smiled and her way to the common room, closing her bedroom doors behind her. She looked at the hallway that split of from the one head up to the bathing area. She remember the look of a kitchen down there. Her stomach suddenly decided it was time to eat.

"Hey Wanda," called Relena as she walked up to her bedroom doors. She gave a soft knock," I think their a kitchen her some where...hungry?"