Ma'tanza's hug took Tzirret off guard momentarily, but he found his wits just in time to return it. Afterwards, he squat forward in the water and swam with broad strokes to follow her back to the others. He congratulated himself for actually handling the situation correctly for once.

The confidence boost Tzirret experienced truly helped him to relax and socialise for the remainder of the afternoon. The group shared jokes, opinions, and stories until eventually they were all called away to various duties. Overall they were very kind people. It was a surprise to Tzirret that the first group he came across would be so nice, all things considered. When he left, he actually was smiling again, sitting straight and confident all the way through dinner and to his bed.

Unfortunately, Tzirret's mind did wander as he tried to sleep, as it usually did. His thoughts went once again to La'khay and the impossibility of romantic involvement with her. He had thought that he had worked it out that morning, but he couldn't help but quietly cry some more. However, now that he had a concrete answer from La'khay, each tear helped with his closure of the issue. He felt as though the burden was all but lifted.

Sabine and Peiter did emerge for dinner as well, looking like they had both been working hard all day. It was not far from the truth. However, while they both agreed that the day was worth it, they also concluded that it was not something they would make a habit of. Once the lust and adrenaline had worn off, they both found themselves sore in sensitive areas and aching in muscles they did not normally exercise. They were dehydrated and utterly enervated. Sabine could hardly stay awake in her meeting with Meesei, but she agreed to look into scalable ways of preserving food the following day. Peiter and Sabine fell asleep in each other's arms not a few moments after their goodnight kiss. Sabine dreamed of him, of course.

Gallus had eventually found Colours after asking around for the better part of an hour. The search really did display the extent of how many people Colours had offended in the clan, with many spitting his name and asking why Gallus would ever have need of such a person.

Colours, after all that time, was found trying to initiate an intimate moment with some young Ohmes-raht woman in her tent,  in spite of the tent being not particularly sound proof. Gallus, being short of patience by that point, had no qualms about 'accidentally' kicking out one of the tent pegs and toppling the canvas over the top of the couple to disrupt their foreplay. Shortly afterwards, Gallus and Colours found a spot to talk and Colours shared that he may indeed have had the contacts to enact their ruse. Gallus eventually persuaded him to attend the meeting tomorrow morning and they parted ways once more.

The next day came around for Tzirret with displeasure at first. He awoke in the early hours of the morning with one of his recurring nightmares. When he managed to get to sleep again, the rest of the morning until dawn was graced with a dream most pleasurable. He was flat on his back, both La'khay and Ma'tanza were about to descend upon his with their smiles, right before his consciousness regretfully took over. The reasons for his awakening were not only the light of dawn, but also the embarrassing coolness under his sheet.

After quickly cleaning himself up, Tzirret came out to find everyone for breakfast. He checked where he had retrieved breakfast yesterday and found members from his and Meesei's pack, as well as Ra'kalesh's pride.

[i]"Good morning!"[/i] Tzirret said in Ta'agra without even thinking about it. His smile and straight back and ears openly displayed a sunny mood.

Tzirret sat down next to Sabine and Peiter, who were also smiling, but moving sluggishly. "How are Sabine and Peiter this morning? This one did not see you much yesterday afternoon."

"Good morning. Mmm...I am good, but..." Sabine stretched her arms out almost as if she was exaggerating, but she wasn't, "...I am stiff. Too much exercise yesterday."

Tzirret nodded as if nothing was wrong, "Ah, if you were out training, then no wonder Khajiit did not see you."

Sabine smiled wryly and did not correct Tzirret.

While the youths conversed, Gallus finished the last of his early breakfast before approaching Meesei. "'Morning, champion," He began in an upbeat tone, "I spoke to Colours, he may know someone in Senchal that can help us. Did you want to find him and discuss it before the meeting or during?"