[color=salmon][b]Sara Weaver
  Sandy Coves Inn, Salem, Massachusetts - mid to late afternoon[/b][/color]




 



 Sara gave a shy smirk as she removed her weathered boots and stuffed them alongside her bed. “Thanks Celeste…” By time Sara looked back up towards the doorway Celeste was gone. She could hear her footsteps heading away from her room and back towards the entryway. “I guess it’s just me now.” Sara got up from where she was sitting and made her way to the door, peeking out to make sure there was no one around but it was only Celeste. Sara wanted some privacy, mainly because that Steve guy was still around so she gently closed the door and exhaled a sigh of relief. 

 With her door shut Sara quickly undid her pants and dropped them where she stood, kicking her wet socks off in the process. Her underwear had started to soak through as well causing her to cover her face in embarrassment upon realizing it. “No, no, no. Why is this happening!” Sara tried to keep her voice down as she shamefully removed her underwear and put them in the pile with her pants and socks. Fishing through her backpack Sara got a fresh pair of clothes for her to change into. A pair of dark blue dungarees, a tank top that was in much better shape than the t-shirt she was currently wearing, and a dry pair of socks. 

 Sara took the fresh clothes and sat them on the seat of the chair that her jacket was on while she removed the rest of her dirty clothes piling them with her pants and underwear on the floor. Letting her hair down Sara sat down on the cold wooden floor and stretched out her muscles, she was starting to ache from the fight she was just in and hoped that some stretches and rest would put her muscles at ease. 

 Satisfied with her few minutes of stretches Sara clumsily stood up and cracked her windows. She wanted to feel the cool ocean breeze, that was one of her favorite parts of Salem, the ocean. Where she was camped at up north she wasn't anywhere close to it but down here she could taste it in the air. It sent a shiver down her spine as the cool breeze hit her bare body causing her to perk up instantaneously. In the cool inviting light that danced through the blinds Sara got a good look at just how dirty she was. It had been a few days since she cleaned herself last, and it would honestly be a few more but she wanted to look presentable...for whatever reason. 

 “I might as well try that bathroom out. I wonder if there's a bucket I fill up or something? Hmm, probably should've mentioned that to Celeste.” Not being in any state to chase Celeste down Sara entered her small attached bathroom. “This place really is something isn't it?” Sara marveled at the freshly cleaned bathroom. She'd truly never seen anything as amazing as this inn. It wasn't anywhere close to the condition it was in before the war but Celeste's compassion for her business was evident in the work she'd put into it.

 Unsure of what to expect Sara hesitantly twisted the knobs on the sink, and surprisingly water came out. Sara quickly turned the water off and stepped back from the sink with a look of astonishment on her face. “What!? You've got to be kidding me!” Sara wiped her eyes and turned the knobs again, letting the water splash into the sink and down the drain as she ran her hands under it. She'd never seen anything like this before, the water certainly wasn't perfect but Sara had been washing herself in an algae covered pond for months. Making this bathroom a huge improvement.

 Too excited to contain herself Sara shut the water off for the sink and made her way to the bathtub. Leaning over she turned the valves, wondering why there were two like the sink. She turned one on and left it run, the water still came out so they didn't both need to be on. Except the water was frigid like the water she bathed in at camp. So what did the other one do? Sara turned off the valve and then opened the other. Only to discover the same thing, the water was cold. “Well what's the point of having two if they don't do anything?” Sara tested the water again and quickly recoiled her fingers. “Ouch! That's hot!” Sara took a moment to process what she was experiencing and then started giggling. “It's hot! It's actually hot!” Sara turned the valve open all the way and inspected the toiletries around the bathroom while she giddily waited for the tub to fill. 

 After a few impatient moments of waiting the tub still hadn't filled. Causing Sara to realize that the plug chained to the tub was to keep the water in. So she plugged the drain and continued to wait. She sat on the toilet, playing with a slippery white bar of something, she wasn't sure what it was but it didn't taste very good. Either way it occupied her long enough for the tub to fill. Unable to wait any longer she shut the valve off and dipped her toe into the water letting out an audible shiver in doing so. 

 With her new toy and a washcloth in hand Sara climbed into the tub, submerging everything from the tip of her shoulders down. She'd never felt anything so good in her entire life. Her entire body tingled and her knees buckled underneath the soothing water. Still unsure of what to do with the little white bar she found, Sara let it drop into the water. An opaque cloud followed it from her hand until it came to rest on her hip. 

 Filled with curiosity Sara placed her hand over the bar and ran it around her waist and up and down her thighs. It's slipperiness under the water, coupled with the sensation it caused Sara to feel told her that she was doing something right. After a few minutes and a rather audible moan, Sara stopped and let the bar tumble off of her stomach and fall to the bottom of the tub. Sara curled her toes as she delicately traced her fingers around where the bar had been. Surprisingly it had left a film on her skin that was just as slick as the bar. “What is this thing?” Sara pulled her fingers up to her nose to smell the residue. It had a rather mild fragrance but it smelled better than she did.
 
 So she grabbed the bar again and rubbed it on her arm, smelled it, then wiped the residue off with her washcloth. Again to her surprise the bar had cleaned her skin off, and left it smelling so much better. “This stuff is awesome!” Sara rubbed herself down from head to toe with her new slippery friend, following behind it with her washcloth until her whole body was the cleanest she could ever remember it being. “Where have you been my whole life?” 

 Sara’s demeanor completely changed when she entered this place, and she was fully aware of it. Now she didn't want to leave, this was what she'd been looking for. A place like this that made her happy, someone like Celeste that made her feel weird inside. All of these things felt special to her, and even if she didn't fully understand them she didn't want them to go away.

 Sara finished cleaning herself up and let the tub drain. She grabbed a towel and began to dry herself off, including her hair, which felt so much cleaner now that she had a chance to rinse the grease and dirt out of it. Grabbing a comb from on top of the sink Sara sat back down on the toilet and went to work combing her hair back. After she was finished and completely dried off Sara hung the towel back up in the bathroom and made her way back into the main room, crashing onto the bed still completely naked. She had never felt so comfortable in her life, and a calming sensation came over her as she laid in bed. Sara grabbed a pillow from behind her head and began to cuddle it as her eyes began to grow heavier with each second. “So this is what home feels like…” She let out an exhausted sigh of relief and drifted off to sleep, as a small puddle of drool started to form on her pillow.