Outwardly, Colors nervousness seemed to disappear. He smiled and stopped glancing around nervously, but his scent betrayed the apparently increasing stress he was feeling. His heart was starting to beat rapidly, and his breathing was becoming irregular. "Ah, I thought so. You two have that look about you. I must say, you are quite a lucky man, Janius, to find a woman as beautiful as...Kaleeth, correct? Her tattoos are striking." He commented, thinking back to recall the introductions they had exchanged earlier.

Colors' words and upbeat tone were in opposition to his more subtle body language. "It is refreshing to meet an Imperial who has an interest in my kind. Too many just see us as beasts. So, how did you meet?"

Even Kaleeth could pick up on the strange ways in which Colors was acting, but she had no way of knowing why. "Meesei's pack visited my village in Black Marsh a few years ago. I had never really spoken to an outsider before, so I started talking to him and we...just kept talking. Given how poor my Cyrodilic was...that was definitely saying something." 

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Peiter undressed as well, leaving his clothing just at the edge of the stream in case he did actually decide to wash them. Stepping into the water, he sat down beside Sabine. Even with just his lower body being mostly submerged, he could already feel the relief of the brisk water. He supposed that, in an absolute sense, the water was warm, but in comparison to the hot, humid air, it might as well have been ice. While Sabine decided to use her tunic to drench herself, Peiter decided to go ahead and lay down on his back. As the water was just deep enough that his head would be submerged near completely, he put his hands behind his head to keep it lifted up. The soreness of his muscles seemed to wash away along with the dirt and sweat that had covered him during their trek to this place, and their training once they arrived.

For a few moments, Peiter looked up at Sabine silently and returned her smile. It was to the point that he almost seemed to be staring before he finally spoke up. "This is...I don't think I've ever been so glad to get in the water. It's going to be hard to get me out."