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"I'm fine" Shae brushed his hands off her eyes. "My eyes just needed a moment to adjust." She blinked a few times, her pupils shrinking to take in less light. My god, one little peck... and oh no... does he think he's my protector now? What doom hath I wrot?

"I was in the forest today. It happens." She shrugged, looking down at herself. "I'm not that dirty." Chatoya went to pull out a few extra blankets from the closet, and pulled one pillow of her bed. She fixed it up on the floor, and grinned and pointed. "That... is yours." She stuck out her tongue at him, and moved around, pulling out a pair of sweat pants, and a large teeshirt, with a huge band logo emblazoned across the chest.

She threw those in the bathroom, and shuffled around the room, putting piles of folded clothes away. At the end of it, the room was fairly clear, except her boots which stayed at the door in a pile. Shae pickedup Granu's uniform, and handed it to him. "The people cleaned everything earlier today, I think this one is yours, right? anyways... I need to wash some of this dirt off, you sleep." Chatoya dissapeared into the bathroom, and as the door shut behind her, there was a distinctive 'click' opf the door locking. Then the water started running.

[to get a better idea of 'woman showers' please look Here!]

With the door locked, Shae felt a little more at ease, she started runnign the water to get it really hot, stripeed down, adn 'adjusted' her body in the mirror, making mental notes to start doing more crunches, push ups, and find a new set of better weights. Maybe I'll check if this place has a gym tomorrow... Seeing the steam rise out of the tub, she hopped in and set to work with her louffa and lemon bodywash.

This could take some time.

[I laugh because that's exactly how i shower too... only i have time svaing techniques! multitasking! :O]

Sha efinished up in the shower, and stepping out onto the small bathmat, dried herself off with a large fluffy towel. She dressed quickly in her pjs. the large teeshirt swamped her body to nearly her knees, and then she put on the sweat pants for good measure. Flicking the switch to start the fan in the washroom, Shae dried off her feet, and stepped out into the carpeted bedroom quietly.

She wasn't sure if Granu had heard her, so she continued sneaking across the room to her bed. Slipping almost noiselessly into her bed, Chatoya pulled out her manicure kit, and started sharpening her nails. "A-HEM" She cleared her throat loudly.

"Only if you pass me that book." Chatoya said lightly, pointing to a rather thick paperback on the desk across the room, and grinning slightly. "I plan on finishing it soon, so I need to put in my reading time." She wriggled down and made herself a little more comfortable in the blankets.

As an after thought, she added "And open the window. I want some air in here. And don't keep me up too late tonight. Oh.. or did you mean 'is it alright with the authorities?'" She asked with a bemused smile. Filing the edges of her nails so they were a little narrowed, she nitpicked at them a bit, expecting no less than perfection.

"Of course not, but I don't see another option here right now..." It's not like I want someone to keep me company, right?. "so they can go whine about it to someone who cares." she finished with aplomb.

[she's not that absent minded, she's just bossy.]

"Yeah, My mom taught me..." She said, trailing off. "We were homeschooled." She smiled, and placed the book on the night stand next to her. Shae pulled her knees up to her chin under the blankets, and rested her head on it's side on them. Wrapping her arms around her legs, she looked at him sideways. "Can't you?" The girl asked, looking slightly concerned. Reading was such a nice escape... She was currently reading a story (a really good one) about a family and.. It was too hard to summarise, but it was GOOD and the sigil for their house was a direwolf.

Anything wolfy couldn't be bad... or so she hoped.

"Oh... OH" She started for a minute, and froze, wondering how much he had figured out... Hearing him say he had only looked and not read, was a bit of a relief. "Well uh... It's not written in english anyways. And all my own notes are written in just symbols that make sense only to me..." She laughed nervously, scratching the back of her head.

"To be honest, I'm only good at reading because I wanted to be. You can't teach anyone anything, if some part of them does not want to learn it." she smiled gently, and craned her head over the edge of the bed to look down at him. "If you'd like, I can get out some of my older books. they have larger print, and if yo ucome across a word you dont know, you can just ask me." She offered the idea, not sure of why.

"Huh?" Shae leaned down, and took a good look at the book he was holding. Her copy of 'Animal Farm' Misleading title.. She raised one ewebrow, and looked at the word he was reading. "That's 'the'" She deadpanned a bit, but took pity. Sliding off her bed, she sat down next to him, and pointed to the T and the H. "Good effort, but you forgot one of the rules. When these two are together, they make a 'thh' sound." She grinned.

Tucking as much of her hair behind her ears as would fit, Shae left her book sitting on the nightstand, and began teaching him, as best she could, trying to imitate the way her mother had acted. "Try the next one." She encouraged him.

"Alright, you got the first half of it right, but you jumbled that last letter. When it's a consonant, like a 'w', you actually don;t pronounce the letter entirely by it's name, just the sound, so that's actually a 'wuh' sound on the end there. Sow that's 'cow'?" she smiled at him. "And you've got a knack for this, i can tell. Just don't give up."

Shae settled down beside him, over the covers, moving onto the next word. "Try again, you just need to get into the patterns." When I stumbled with words, what would Mum do? Give me a kiss and tell me to try again... well, that's... uhuh..... Thinking for a moment, Shae put one arm around his shoulders, and gave a squeeze of reassurement.