faderift | Take me to the water's edge [open]

WHO: Rey and YOU
WHAT: Stuff Rey is doing for the month of Harvestmere
WHEN: ~whenever~
WHERE: Skyhold
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i. riverside

Rey can be found often standing on the river bank, a little ways away from the camp, where she thinks no one will see her. Even after her lessons have concluded for the day with Obi-Wan she'll come here to keep practising, picking rocks up from the riverbank using nothing but the Force, then throwing them out into the water.

Sometimes she sees if she can find the same rock and pull it back, other times she'll try to angle a smooth stone, perfect for skipping, just to see if she can skip it with her will alone. And sometimes she'll get frustrated with that and just actually physically skip stones, something she learned to do in the water troughs at the edge of Niima outpost when she was young.

ii. tower

Sleeping in the barracks was something that Rey wasn't quite comfortable with, too many bodies, too many people she doesn't know well enough to trust letting her guard down around. So for a while she'd taken to sleeping in nooks and crannies around the castle, wherever she could tuck herself to avoid getting trampled on or spotted. Finally she found herself a room that looked unoccupied, possibly due to the massive hole in the wall facing the valley. Rey is however something of an expert in patching up sad hovels into something liveable. She hung a heavy wool blanket across the hole, and added some nails she acquired to pin it into place when night fell and the wind blew.

Anyone who happens into the tower her room is located in, whether looking for her or not, may find her with tools spread out on the floor as she attempts to install a locking mechanism into the door. She doesn't own much, certainly nothing anyone would want to steal, but a lock will make her feel more at ease at night.

iii. hot springs

Rey can count on one hand the number of times she's used a bath with actual water. On Jakku every drop was precious and needed more for hydration than the luxury of cleaning oneself. Sonic showers were the norm, and even those had been fairly infrequent. She'd had a real shower before leaving to try and track Luke Skywalker down, it had felt bizarre to waste water in such a way.

Standing looking at the hot springs now, she still feels that way. All the same she needs to get clean, and she knows this is the best option, the other being the freezing river. She's getting better at tolerating the cold, but she does still have her limits. This isn't her first time here, but she's still unaccustomed to the concept, so it's late at night when she's less likely to run into someone else. With a little puttering she puts her things aside, before making her way into the water, letting out a sigh as the heat seeps into her skin. It's the closest she's gotten to the Jakku heat since arriving in Thedas, and strange as it is, it's not unwelcome.

After soaking it in for a few moments she sets to the task of letting her hair down, wanting to be in and out in as short amount of time as absolutely possible.

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Late at night seems the only time she ever has to herself, and with both Zevran and the baby asleep it seems as good at time as any to try and unwind a little. People have been suggesting that, after all. Nonstop. As though she didn't know perfectly well how to take care of herself.

She's bundled up in a fur-lined robe on the way down to the hot springs, with a few towels folded over an arm to assist once she's ready to climb out. She pauses, however, when she sees the young woman already occupying the spring. It's something of a surprise to see anyone out here this late.

Mia draws to a halt just short of the spring's edge.

"Ah. My apologies. I didn't mean to disturb anyone."

Rey almost instinctively ducks under the water at the sound of a voice, she'd been so focused on pulling knots out of her hair she hadn't even realized someone else was near. She stops before her head goes completely under and slowly comes back up, looking at the woman who spoke and willing herself to relax a little.

"No it's- it's alright. I didn't think anyone else would come down here this time of the night."

"Nor did I. Apparently great minds think alike, and yet find a way to thwart one another," she replies with a wry smile.

"I don't suppose you'd be willing to share? I don't bite."

She'd offer to come back later, but there might not be time later, or she may very well just pass out from exhaustion sometime during the wait. It can't hurt to ask, at least. She does give the wet knots in Rey's hair a considering look, however.

It's a strange concept, to share a bath with another person, but she knows it's normal on some planets. Jakku was not one of those planets, because water was regulated for consumption to survive, for the most part. And you don't share a sonic shower.

"I can share. That's- common, isn't it?"

"It is, but you needn't feel obligated on that account. If you'd rather spend the time alone, it won't be going anywhere." Mia's smile warms a few degrees, and he hand still remains at the fur-lined cloak at her shoulders.

"We all get precious little privacy around here, it seems."

Privacy is actually something Rey has had in spades for a long time. Aside from preferring her own space when she sleeps, it's kind of nice to her that there's people everywhere in Skyhold. Granted it's as friendly as Niima Outpost at times, but it's still people actually working together rather than existing alongside one-another.

"No, you came all the way down here, it's not fair to send you off. I'm alone enough as it is."

"Well that's very kind of you."

And she's grateful, that tired smile says as much, before she carefully steps her way over to the far edge of the spring. She takes her time in unfastening the clasp of her cloak and lying it beside the edge of the water...mostly so Rey has time to avert her eyes, before the older woman settles herself shoulder-deep in the water.

"Oh, Maker." There's a content sigh as she settles back against the warm rock. "Now that is heavenly."

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