Noah missed Elann’s smug and annoyed look entirely; after kicking his shirt off to the side he went about preparing the bath. To him, if the shirt was dirty and going to be collected with other equally dirty clothes, there was no point in being orderly with it. He would’ve been neat otherwise. As it were, he was not.

Elann told him she was fine with the lighting, it was romantic. He nodded and looked around, taking in the warm colors that were probably more vibrant in his eyes as opposed to her own. He could truly appreciate the brilliancy of her own irises due to his sight, a feature of hers he adored openly. Noah nodded. “I like it too,” he said quietly about the lightning.

With the water running into the bath Noah settled onto sitting at the edge of the tub’s basin and watching Elann go about folding his shirt and setting it with the outer portion of her dress. He then watched her undress, quietly taking in her small frame, the hills and valleys of her body, and then what he could see of the angelic wings iridescent shimmering in an outline on her back. Noah’s own mark was shimmering in the same way, light glinting off the silvery blues that swirled in real-time on his back like an active storm, a hurricane.

Noah watched her come to him, his eyes curiously on her as she walked in his direction. She took a slight turn though, going up the steps leading to the top of the tub's basin before slowly submerging herself. Noah got up then, moving to replace the plywood of the hutch the stop the hot water. The bath was hot but not impossible to submerge oneself in, cooled enough by the cold water coming from the aqueducts above and outside the house. Standing, Noah stripped himself of his bottoms and followed Elann’s lead in folding the garment, dirty or not. He set it atop the pile of other clothes before approaching the tub, climbing the steps, and then slowly sinking in as well. Since it was a soaking tub, the basin was comparatively deep when matched up against the tubs Elann may have seen in Syliras. It had to be made as such in order to take the long bodies of Noah and his family, therefore it was big enough for Elann and Noah together since they were both small in comparison to the males of his family.

Noah let out a long sigh and closed his eyes to enjoy the water, his legs loosely crossed underneath the water. He was on the opposite side of the tub from Elann, shrinking himself in order to give her free reign of the rest of the tub. He didn’t need a lot of space as it were and was comfortable in his little spot. Elann could feel the seemingly heavy stressors of their trip slowly melting away from Noah, his comfort and mood lightening significantly in comparison to what had been weighing on him before and during their trip to Zeltiva.