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Day 41: Women's Showers

May 15, 2009 13:54

Utena was very, very glad that the patients were finally being allowed to go to the showers. Even for a girl more used to sweating than many in her gender, two days without a shower was definitely enough to make her feel stickier and stinkier than she preferred to be. Especially after all the running around and tearing apart of rooms she, Celes and ( Read more... )

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fencing_captain May 16 2009, 14:37:48 UTC

Finally, a shower! Juri ignored the public aspect of the shower, except to vaguely note Utena was there and move to the opposite end of the area, and got right to business. She knew she nothing to hide about her body, and she was far too interested in the soap and shampoo to worry that there might be danger here. And at least until she had her hair washed, she wasn't talking right away either.

This felt deliciously good after two days of being dirty.

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bullygeneraleva May 18 2009, 00:42:35 UTC

Ugh, great. Shower time with the brats. Evangeline didn't exactly object to a chance to get clean, but she hated being split up by age. At least at Mahora there were an okay number of people who knew she wasn't really a kid. Sometimes that made it worse... but right now she really wished there was someone here who knew who and what she was. A little respect would be nice, and this shift seemed to have been designed purely to remind her that here she wasn't going to get a shred.

She edged over towards one of the older and less perturbed-looking bathers. Sure, she'd probably end up looking even younger by contrast, but she really didn't want to be around anyone who found the setup embarrassing, lest their reaction prove contagious.

fencing_captain May 18 2009, 01:21:39 UTC

When someone moved in next to her, Juri didn't desist until her hair was rinsed squeaky clean. The rest could be done more leisurely. She turned slightly toward the younger-looking girl beside her. "This is this dumbest place to meet, but hi." She wasn't the least embarrassed. "I'm Juri." She reached for the soap and started scrubbing her feet, lifting one foot at a time.

bullygeneraleva May 18 2009, 02:08:11 UTC

There was a sentiment Evangeline could bring herself to agree with. If she'd been in a really argumentative mood she could have thought up a few dumber places, or pointed out that the value of the meeting entirely depended on the meeting itself and not the location, or just gone with the usual and implied that it was even dumber because it involved Juri, but right now saving her abuse for the washroom in particular and Landel's in general was priority one.

"You can say that again," she said, halfway between plain old grumbling and wry commentary. "Evangeline."

Wasn't she just sociable today? Time for washing.

fencing_captain May 18 2009, 12:41:40 UTC

As she moved onto soaping and rinsing other parts of her body. "Do you think these people would give me shower sandals?" she asked. "I know there's worse here, but the idea of getting a foot infection..." She wrinkled her nose. It was hard not to look at other people as possibly the sort of scum who'd never make it in Juri's rarefied world. Though this girl didn't look that way particularly.

"I know that must sound petty, but I value my health."

bullygeneraleva May 18 2009, 22:39:54 UTC

"Their heads are all empty, but they might care about that kind of mundane crap," Evangeline said. "Go ahead and ask."

She didn't know why the girl was asking her, except perhaps because she had come to the minority conclusion that idle conversation was less awkward than pretending the rest of the room didn't exist... which she was willing to tolerate as long as Juri actually did something with her opinion and went ahead and asked. Being made to talk to fill up someone else's time didn't suit her. At all.

Of course, she felt perfectly free to waste other people's time frivolously, and decided to pick at the harmless-seeming explanation Juri had attached to the end of her complaint. "Why's that?"

fencing_captain May 19 2009, 01:16:01 UTC

Not much left. It felt too good to be clean. "I'm a model and a championship fencer. I have to keep fit. Just in case I ever get out of here." She wasn't sure why she wanted to talk. It did put the rest of the shower room at a distance. That could easily be the only reason. Juri had a feeling this girl was mocking her, though she didn't know why and couldn't call her on it.

"It's better to be healthy anyway. Infections are gross."

bullygeneraleva May 19 2009, 07:38:52 UTC

Evangeline took a serious, measuring look at Juri for the first time. "Hn. Not bad. For a child of the modern era that makes you pretty accomplished..."

It was faint praise, though... the way she said it made it quite clear that she expected very little from a 'child of the modern era'. Still, it was enough for her to ask another question.

"Are you happy with that?"

fencing_captain May 19 2009, 11:13:00 UTC

"Which? Getting out or my old life? I miss my old life." Juri shrugged and turned off the water. She squeezed excess from her hair and looked for where the towels were kept. Her habitual frown was back, but she made an effort not to be churlish. "Who wouldn't miss that?" Then she thought of Anthy. No, she didn't like her, but she couldn't imagine wanting to go back to being the Rose Bride. "I take that back. There are worse things than being here, I guess."

bullygeneraleva May 20 2009, 02:23:13 UTC

"Lots of them," Evangeline agreed. "Some of us would find your life just as much a prison, though."

She waved the girl off dismissively as she finished washing. "Well, don't think about it too much. It was well said that ignorance is bliss, so try to be a bit dumb, even if you aren't."

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