They walked in silence until they reached a room with two tubs filled to the brim with water.
“I will wait until you finish with our princess before taking my bath,” Sylbia said. The men were still somewhere in the building, making sure they had no unexpected visitors.
“Nonsense,” Alyssa said tiredly, stripping her ruined clothes from her body and heading straight for the bath as if it were salvation itself.
“Heavens, what I would not give for a bath,” Abigail’s yearning made her realize that jinn could not eat, sleep, or bathe because they were and were not part of the corporeal plane. She shuddered before slipping into the water with a contented sigh.
If it were just a little warmer, it would be perfect, she thought… and the water warmed. She stiffened and then relaxed. Jinn. If s
