As Fendros disrobed and lowered himself into the bath, he found his eyes wandering again, though not stealthily enough for Ahnasha not to notice. He tilted his head forward and smiled, "I can't help it, sorry, you're too beautiful," he responded, sarcastically putting on a tone a fault as he walked over to kneel down beside where she lay. "Now, where do I start?" He rhetorically asked as he probed her up and down the surface of her body for where her muscles had especially tightened up. Even though she looked relaxed, Fendros could tell that she was obviously very stressed, as certain muscles felt more solid and restricted than normal. It was no surprise with what they had talked about this afternoon. That was to say nothing of the yet unresolved matter of lifespans that she had been thinking about for so long, and probably still had in the back of her mind. All in all, Fendros had forgotten just how honest one's body could be to tell what one was feeling. He decided to start high, rubbing his thumbs over the base of her neck until the tension started to loosen. "Let me know where the knots are, I'll untie them," Fendros said gently, working his way outwards to the space between her neck and her shoulders. ----- When Ahnasha and Fendros left the campfire, Janius' own thoughts went to relationships, though his mind was more focussed on the temporary kind. "Hey Lorag," He said after a few moments, leaning back and looking at an inconsequential spot on the ceiling, "What do you think of Ariel? Kind of sweet, isn't she?" There was a pause for a moment in Sabine's rhythmic grinding that almost caught everyone's attention, but it resumed as quickly. ----- Once they were through the culvert, Ariel took Meesei's arm rather suddenly and slinked up to the wall of one of the towers, putting her finger up to her mouth and looking into the main courtyard. They remained for a few moments, the sickly grinding of bones accompanied the clomping of boots as two hunched skeletons in helmets and rawhide marched by, not having their glowing eye-sockets in the direction of their hiding spot as they patrolled. Each of them carried a wooden shield and an iron mace. Now that they had a moment, Ariel checked her surroundings. The place hadn't changed much from the last time she had been there. Apart from the one she was up against, there were five more towers visible from where she was standing that were conjoined by walls, forming a skewed hexagon shape. Some of the walls were partially collapsed, but they all still denied entry. The furthest tower from where they were standing looked like a great meteor had knocked it down. It was a short stump compared to the others, and much of its rubble was still strewn in the central courtyard. On top of each of the towers and walking along the intact walls were sentinels, but no lit torches. The courtyard itself had a few lit torches. The foundations of an old central keep, the floors and a few sections of pillar, were the only remaining evidence of a central building that had once stood there, but now was replaced by plants and a number of strange artifacts and formations that looked important to the rituals of witches. Once the sentinels were out of earshot, Ariel poked her thumb against the tower they were up against. "This is one of the laboratories, we'll check here first," She whispered with a serious expression. With that, she skirted along the wall, checking for any more sentinels as she went. This tower had a door with no visible light emanating from its base, and a check for life and death yielded nothing else of merit. Carefully, Ariel opened the door. It was pitch black inside, but her night eye potion alleviated that problem. While there were a few ingredients that were used in the gas present in the assembly of glass and ingredients, there was no direct evidence of the gas being made in this room. There were other floors they would need to quickly check though. Ariel raised her palm to Meesei to get her to stay where she was, then pointed to her own eyes and mouthed "Keep watch." She stepped inside, the downward stairway was caved in long ago, but there was additional equipment upstairs that warranted checking. She leaped up the stairs three at a time until she could poke her head over to look at the next floor. Still nothing out of the ordinary, they must have set up in another area. The top floor was the roof, and that had nothing she needed except for a sentinel, so she instead made her way down again to Meesei. "Nothing, let's try the one on the right from here. It's a storeroom tower."