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[color=FF650E]“Men find such an atrocious degree of joy in combat. I’ve often wondered if they just see it as high risk roughhousing. I understand the necessity of training but I agree, I’ll never understand the pleasure he sought from it.”[/color] Clarissa agreed. She watched Lienna enter the bath, choosing to find a quiet spot by herself rather than seek out conversation. After the disastrous display the Blue Lions put forth and the intensity of their training, Clarissa couldn’t fault her. She made to call Lienna over so she could distract her from whatever thoughts had her staring into the water like that but Imogen got to her first. There wasn’t any better distraction than the chaos that the other Deer seemed to revel in so Clarissa let them be and turned her attention back to Veronica.

[color=FF650E]“Considering the ordeals of the day, I think we can do away with worries of formalities, Veronica.”[/color] Clarissa laughed, slipping down a little further in the water so she could rest her head on the edge of the pool comfortably. [color=FF650E]“I’m only here for my recovery and good company and personally, I think I’ve found both so I’d loathe to sacrifice either of it over propriety for the moment. It has it’s time and place but I think it best we leave that at the door with our clothes after a long day of being repeatedly and violently introduced to the ground.”[/color] 

[color=FF650E]“With the water around me, it’s easy to forget I’m half a world away from home. I didn’t think that was what I’d miss the most but I miss the ocean most of all. Even when I’d travel as a child, we mostly stuck along the coast between our home and Derdriu. It’s been a strange change of pace not to wake up to salt in the air and the sound of waves lapping at the pier.”[/color] Clarissa spoke with her eyes closed, relaxed. [color=FF650E] “Is there anything you miss from home being sheltered away up here at the top of the world?”[/color]