Nihi Sumba, Sumba Island, Indonesia, Tuesday Morning

[not_a_goddamn_princess]

 You can't spend your entire vacation in your villa! Well, you can. But maybe go exploring--even if it's just to spot Bonnie the goat wandering the grounds and demanding raisins.

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Re: The Beach

[special_rabbit]

There was....a pause, with a thoughtful nibble on her satay, the thoughtful, nibbling pause of a person who knew they were staring right into the abyss of something potentially very, very dangerous.

"...nothing much," she admitted, eventually, "at the moment."

Re: The Beach

[begmetwice]

"I was thinking I might get my toes done in a bit," Irene shared, wiggling her (red-painted and still flawless) toes at Amaya. "Maybe see if they do mud baths, that sort of thing. Might be fun, if you're game. My treat."

Though, of course, the holy grail of spa treatments went unsaid: Irene desperately wanted to someday coax Amaya into letting someone try relaxing her hair a bit.

Re: The Beach

[special_rabbit]

Irene Adler, what in the blazes did you have against those poor spa workers by subjecting them to any of that, most of all to Amaya's hair?

"Might be fun," she echoed, with a skeptical look Irene's way, "to take a bath...in mud. Isn't that antithetical to whole entire concept of a bath?"

Re: The Beach

[begmetwice]

Perhaps they'd like a challenge! And to be wildly overtipped for their efforts!

"The mud usually draws nasty gunk out of your skin, and then you rinse the whole thing off," Irene corrected her, having to grin at that very logical conclusion. "Less mud-mud, more a...very spendy mud-like substance. It's heavenly, really."

Re: The Beach

[special_rabbit]

"I would express concern that anyone would spend good money on any kind of mud or mud-like substance," said Amaya, "but I've seen some of the price tags on your clothes."

And some of her own now, too!

Re: The Beach

[begmetwice]

"And have I steered you wrong yet?" Irene wondered, sliding her sunglasses down to raise a brow at Amaya over them. "Usually whatever I'm after is worth the price."

Even the mud, believe it or not!

Re: The Beach

[special_rabbit]

Amaya softly snorted at that, which did nothing to help her keep the wry little smirk at the corner of her mouth at bay. Because, no, actually, Irene hadn't steered her wrong in many things, there were definitely receipts to back that one up.

So she just shook her head a little and allowed, "I mean, I guess it's got to be pretty good mud if you're willing to even go anywhere near it..."