Day 34: Women's Showers

[yin_yang_fox]

[tl;dr]Renamon was resolute in maintaining an aura of unemotional professionalism after last shift. She wasn’t going to allow herself to be affected by anything here--at least, not until she could analyze them. Lost in thought, she followed the nurse leading her without paying much attention to her surroundings. It wasn’t until she realized they

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[ellectriclights]

So Eddie's gunk was alive, some kind of creature that made him stronger, meaner, and apparently have claws. That was... interesting. Also, she needed to keep an eye out for Reid, and that boy from the courtyard. They were stirring up trouble, and trouble-makers had to be punished.

Elle was so lost in thought that she didn't realize where her nurse was leading her until she smelled the steam from all the hot water. The nurse told her that really now, Miss Cardinal, you needed a good shower and it would do you the world of good to wash off any dirt that you may have picked up and she may even have made a passing reference to the fact that Elle had to be pried off a different boy at the end of every shift. But all Elle could think was water and that white-hot pain she'd felt last night.

"No, I can't," she whined pathetically, stepping back

[ellectriclights]

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[wishescankill]

[for Harley]

Oh, showers. While a shower was definitely called for, Anya wasn't sure she liked the notion of having to change all her bandages and get hot water on the third-degree burns on her back. She informed her nurse of this fact, but the irritating woman just smiled and said something about horse manure.

Anya wasn't really paying attention, but she hoped she didn't actually smell like horse manure. Just because she'd spent the past few nights rolling around on the ground being attacked by foul-smelling demonic creatures, like cats and clowns, didn't mean that... Oh, what was the use? There was no denying that she needed a shower.

Removing her clothes carefully so as not to irritate any of her various wounds, she turned on one of the showers and began washing herself.

[jokers_wildcard]

She didn't know what she was expecting, really. This place was so much bigger and nicer than Arkham, what with its fancy outdoors and fingerpaints and potato chips. But in the end, Harley supposed there was only so much one could do for public showers. Luckily, she was plenty used to the whole showering-in-public thing and easily tossed her clothes off without shame. Heck, she could probably use a shower.

Harley walked a bit too casually to one of the closer showers, which happened to have some girl next to it, and started fiddling with the knobs. Apparently the shower knobs here were a bit more sensitive than the ones back 'home,' since the shower head immediately burst to life with a stream of freezing water.

"EEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!" she squealed loudly. She hopped back and forth between both feet, trying to keep the sensitive unfoot area away from the water and failing. She hopped herself closer to the controls, trying to readjust the temperature to something a bit more tolerable. "Coldcoldcoldcoldcoldcold...."

[wishescankill]

Anya was in the midst of yet another battle with the soap dispenser from hell when a girl padded up and turned on the next shower over. Which would have been fine if the idiotic child hadn't been from the world without showers and turned the thing on full blast and very cold.

A seemingly impossible amount of glacial-temperature water splashed and hit Anya, who shrieked loudly, unprepared as she was to get hit with what felt like liquid ice. "Turn it off!" she demanded, trying to see through eyelids that were surely freezing shut.

She batted the girl's hands away from the knobs and brought the flow of water under control. "Do I have to do everything myself? It's very simple: Turn. The. Knob. Don't they have hygiene in your dimension?"

[jokers_wildcard]

The jet stream of water thankfully lightened up with the intervention and even slooowly started to warm up. Not as great a relief as she would have liked but far better than getting completely hosed. Harley should have been thankful for the help, but she really couldn't be grateful to someone who was going to have such an attitude.

"Yeah. Don't they got manners in your dimension?" Jeez-la-weez... "Little cold water never hurt nobody. At least-"

Before Harley could make some pun about 'cooling off,' she took a glance at the woman and did a complete double take. She had been noticing more and more how many people were suffering from injuries. Frankly, it was pretty disturbing for a place that was supposed to be locked down and safe. But this girl was above and beyond what she had seen so far... Gashes, scrapes, a headwound... burns?! Okay, this was pretty ridiculous for some giant bug things. That couldn't have been what happened.

"WHOA! What happened to you?!" she blurted out without thinking, anger making way for shock. She stared

[thatdamnedninja]

[For Elena?]

Yuffie, being from Wutai, had no problem with communal bathing. None. Zip. Nada. Yuffie, also having run around in the wilderness with the lunatics from Avalanche, was pretty much desensitized to getting naked with a bunch of other people.

... When it came to getting clean, that was.

Her nurse had seemed pleasantly surprised when she'd just stripped off and marched right into the shower, but Yuffie concentrated less on that and more on the water she was standing under. Nice, warm water. Clean water. No risk of mermaids chewing off her legs, no algae or grossness plant-life getting where no plant-life should ever go, no risk of Don Corneo popping out of the plumbing to feel her up (she'd had nightmares about that for almost a week)!

[thatdamnedninja]

Getting clean didn't take a gazillion years- actually, it barely took any time at all. Yuffie allowed herself a few minutes of time to just bask under the spray, before she remembered that she had a message to be waiting for.

Hadn't Sagara said that he'd leave a note for her on the bulletin board, after all? And didn't she herself need to leave a message for Cloud? Thinking about it all was starting to get her fired up all over again, and impatience kicked her desire to stay under the water's ass straight out of a mental window.

A skip was in her step as she dried, reclothed, and made her way out of the shower.

[Yuffie went here]

[gray_gambit]

On the one hand, Lia was grateful for the chance to get clean. Though any trace of her exertions the previous two nights seemed to have been wiped away come morning, she still felt their mark, as though the grime had seeped into her skin. Some of that, she knew, was down to the aura of the place, and scrub though she might, she wouldn't get rid of it. Still, being clean would be refreshing

[hajike_tobiume]

Momo's cast meant she couldn't stay in the water long and enjoy it. Considering her current lack of motivation given the way the previous might had turned out and the talk on the board about how others had also made it beyond the walls and been brought back here again, she supposed she'd just see what Hitsugaya needed her to do. She wasn't up for any special projects as it was.

Since she needed to wait on someone else before Skuld could fix her sword, she'd have enough time to run down to Mustang's room to return the key she'd borrowed. Hopefully he wouldn't be too upset it'd taken her so long. The shinigami mulled all this over while she washed herself, keeping her cast dry via the use of a basin as opposed to the shower head.

Not sure what else to do, Momo opted to continue drawing Tobiume outside. Fresh air would be nice.

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