[Action Closed] behind closed doors

[only_fell]

Any minute now

Any second now.

Her heart beats out the ratt-tatt-tatt of the words just a bit too fast.

Inara has been anticipating this moment all night long but unlike every moment of the rest of the evening, very little here is planned. She has lit candles in favor of electric lights and she's discarded the red dress but not the corset. Her hair has been unbound so that it tumbles around her shoulders and down her back. The drapes are tightly drawn but the bed is a rumpled mess. Neither of them are going to care.

Anticipation and nerves butterfly in her stomach and when combined with the tight corset, she almost feels faint. She makes certain the door is unlocked then fills the basin with water. The room isn't particularly stuff but she feels overheated regardless; she dips a hand in the basin, lets the water ripple through her fingers then raises her hand to the back of her neck so the cool water can run down her skin, slipping into the space between skin and corset.

Any minute now.

Any second now.