All the physical mess, that's fixable. The innkeeper included soap for then as well as oils, and there's going to be time for grooming themselves back to normality. The emotional mess, that will take time.
She finds herself patient and full of it now. There's still tadpoles in her head, there's a cult trying to end the world and turn it into an illithid colony, there's an unspoken agreement from the world at large that they're meant to save it - Hermione and her group of traumatised assholes - and yet it feels like the biggest threat is taken care of.
She can be patient, just as she's been with Astarion for some time.
Although that doesn't stop her from tsking her tongue when he apologises. "You've nothing to apologise for, my darling," she says calmly.
She dips her hand in the water, and brings it up to his forehead, then runs it back over his hair. It's by far the slowest method of washing his hair, but she isn't quite ready to let him go.
"You're allowed to feel things," she adds, "and it's nobody's business or say about what those things should be. You take your time now. Let me take care of you."
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She finds herself patient and full of it now. There's still tadpoles in her head, there's a cult trying to end the world and turn it into an illithid colony, there's an unspoken agreement from the world at large that they're meant to save it - Hermione and her group of traumatised assholes - and yet it feels like the biggest threat is taken care of.
She can be patient, just as she's been with Astarion for some time.
Although that doesn't stop her from tsking her tongue when he apologises. "You've nothing to apologise for, my darling," she says calmly.
She dips her hand in the water, and brings it up to his forehead, then runs it back over his hair. It's by far the slowest method of washing his hair, but she isn't quite ready to let him go.
"You're allowed to feel things," she adds, "and it's nobody's business or say about what those things should be. You take your time now. Let me take care of you."