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Thomson sighed loudly, "finally being clean after so long."
"You go ahead and use all of the shampoo," Rebecca called. "I wouldn't want to deprive you of your long-awaited opportunity. Besides, I think I might be able to make do with these extra suds..."
Later, as the femmes were toweling off and using cantrips to dry their fur, Burnside twisted her towel up and snapped Rebecca on the behind with it.
Rebecca yelped and responded in kind, resulting in a spirited, rambunctious towel fight, replete with giggling and squealing, running and leaping around the washroom like Wild Elves of the Long Ago.
"Cease this frivolity at once!" I demanded, as I emerged from my cubicle with a towel wrapped around myself. "Stop before it becomes Cavorting, or even (Fuma forefend!) Frolicking! Burnside, cut that out! Your antics are nowhere near as charming as you seem to think they are.”
"Heads up, yer highness," Burnside cackled as she whipped her towel toward me.
Adoyret Sam's training had not been for nothing! I grabbed the tip of the towel in midair before it could touch me. I glared at Burnside with the most withering glower I could muster.
"Quick reflexes," Burnside remarked, seemingly unfazed by my stern look. "Lookin mighty good in that there towel, Adler honey. How bout a little venery to blow off the last of our excess energy? A bathroom's the best place for venery - ya can git dirty an' clean at the same time!"
“Remember when I said if you brought up venery again," I reminded her, "I would put a geas on you that prevents you from feeling pleasure for the next fifty years? That wasn’t an idle threat. Elves do not lie.”
Burnside's mischievous demeanor evaporated and she looked genuinely terrified.
“Surely, my lord, that seems a bit harsh…” Rebecca stated, a bit uncertainly. "And elves do not lie. You DO look good in that towel. My lord."
“You’re right," I sighed. "And I suppose a curse of anhedonia would be cruel, bordering on Unseelie. Besides, I just thought of something much more interesting.” I cracked my knuckles as I loomed over the cowering raccoon.
A few minutes later, Thomson joined us in the corridor outside the washroom. "I feel like a new Floozy," she sighed contentedly. "And I've never seen Mr. Calaveras so gleamingly white before. What on earth is Burnside doing?"
As punishment for being an insufferable little pest, I had placed a geas on Burnside that forced her to act and speak like a refined, high class gentlefemme - but one utterly lacking physical coordination. As she tried to curtsy to a passing student, she tottered and bonked her head against the wall.
“My lord, I’m not sure this is more merciful,” Rebecca muttered.
“Nonsense," I sniffed. "Considering the sheer number and magnitude of her past crimes, not to mention her complete lack of contrition, any punishment that doesn’t involve a headsman’s axe is an act of mercy. Besides, this is quite amusing to watch."
"It makes her a lot less effective as a bodyguard," Thomson pointed out.