While hardly a professional, Fendros was glad that what few things he had remembered about massaging appeared to be effective. He breathed a chuckle though his nose at her comment. The 'best decision' was not something he could have predicted to turn out like this. "Who would have thought, right?" Fendros repeated what Ahnasha had said several days ago when they were under the mushroom tree near Vos. He began to explore behind and around her shoulders, freeing the tension from those areas as well. As the tightness softened at his touch, he noticed how Ahnasha's upper body was distinct from anyone else Fendros had rubbed the back of before, testament to all her practice with a bow. He felt like he was getting to know her all over again with the features he found. "What do you think would have happened if, you know, we didn't drink so heavily that night?" Fendros asked idly. He didn't want to ruin the atmosphere, but he wondered whether it was truly happenstance that brought them together, or whether they would have fallen for each other anyway. ----- "Yeah," Janius agreed, getting perspective back into the situation. Perhaps it wasn't the best idea to trust her enough to make a move on her. "You didn't? I thought..." Janius looked at Lorag quizzically, then got up and searched where he was pointing rather enthusiastically. Lifting the lid from one crate, he rifled through it's contents. It was mostly sacks of grain and vegetables. Looking through a few other crates and barrels yielded similar results, until the fifth one he found froze him on the spot. Four small kegs lay next to each other in the crate, they were branded with a daedric symbol that Janius didn't recognise, but it was Dunmer booze of some description. "Aww..." Janius said through a grin, "Look at that, tucked in tight, they're so cute." Carefully, he put the lid of the crate on the ground and lifted out one of the kegs. He had to look around for a mallet and a spigot in order to actually draw the liquid, but that wasn't too hard. He brought the all the items with the keg and dropped them near Lorag. "Put the spigot in, I'll look for some mugs." He turned and tried to search through various utensils for drinking vessels. "It's our lucky night! I'll bet there's a nice ale in that." He announced through the cave. ----- Meesei had saved them just in time. The familiar face of Old Georgia strode by them as they went invisible. Normally that woman had a keen eye, going about her preparations for a moon ritual. Ariel ducked into the tower just as before. The first floor needed a closer look, as most things were in crates. Lifting one of the crates revealed it to be tightly packed with the gas flasks, padded with straw. It was enough to know that this tower was going to be a target. Stepping up to the second floor yielded a similar number of crates and barrels, but Ariel knew for a fact that this was used more for ingredients and other miscellaneous items. On her way down, Ariel didn't spot a stray rock that she accidentally kicked. She halted and cursed every sound that the rock made as it rolled down the old stone staircase. Some footsteps began behind her and she immediately cast invisibility on herself and went against the wall, looking either way. The footsteps stopped and scraped forward as the head of a Dunmer woman poked out of the door to the second floor room and looked around curiously. [i]Dagmar,[/i] Ariel thought as she held her breath. The Dunmer woman in a black robe proceeded out onto the staircase and craned her neck to look down it, but seeing no immediate disturbance, she shrugged silently and went back into the storeroom. Ariel exhaled and descended the rest of the stairs, being careful this time to not hit any loose objects. Once she reunited with Meesei, she beckoned her inside and lead her to a spot to hide behind the crates on the first floor. "We'll wait here for a moment, then we'll head underground from this tower to the next," Ariel whispered, "these crates, they have gas. The laboratory they are using to make it would probably be nearby."