[Oh Kurgie, so full of compassion. Fai just smiles that same tiny smile as the ninja slips out the door, waiting an extra moment or two before he works up the motivation to strip the rest of the way.
The warm water feels heavenly. Not surprisingly, Fai's apparently been wearing an extra layer of grime beneath the bloody clothes. He's normally fairly fastidious, but constant travel and never ending battles will do that. For a time he focuses just on getting clean, scrubbing the dirt and the blood from his skin. The amount of blood that soaks into the water from washing his face is, as expected, a little horrifying. He really must have looked quite a fright out there in the city. He doesn't manage to quite get all of it off his face because he can't actually see what he's doing, but he's pretty sure that's the bulk of it.
A few minutes later he's curled up in the tub with his knees drawn up to his chest and his forehead resting on the cool porcelain of the side of the tub, crying. He'd told Kurogane once that he thought it took a good deal of strength to let oneself cry when it was needed. It doesn't feel much like strength though, crying alone in a bath in an unfamiliar world.]
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The warm water feels heavenly. Not surprisingly, Fai's apparently been wearing an extra layer of grime beneath the bloody clothes. He's normally fairly fastidious, but constant travel and never ending battles will do that. For a time he focuses just on getting clean, scrubbing the dirt and the blood from his skin. The amount of blood that soaks into the water from washing his face is, as expected, a little horrifying. He really must have looked quite a fright out there in the city. He doesn't manage to quite get all of it off his face because he can't actually see what he's doing, but he's pretty sure that's the bulk of it.
A few minutes later he's curled up in the tub with his knees drawn up to his chest and his forehead resting on the cool porcelain of the side of the tub, crying. He'd told Kurogane once that he thought it took a good deal of strength to let oneself cry when it was needed. It doesn't feel much like strength though, crying alone in a bath in an unfamiliar world.]