Valence Night: Chronicle of a Lost Night

Chapter 2: Unexpected Tease

The two girls hop their way down the rocky hill, bouncing off small boulders and avoiding the main road to get to their destination stealthier and faster, hoping to not scrape and fall. After a long series of rock scaling, the two arrive to a green oasis, separate from the rocky road they’ve been stumbling through.

“Alright, just pass these trees!” Selah singing in a heaving pitch.
“And we’re here!” Reims sings back. “Time to get naked and have fun!”

“Eww… that sounds wrong! Ha ha!”

Selah and Reims arrive behind a large rock and begins unbuckling their hooded cloak. Both drop their robes onto the grass field and slowly work their dress and undergarment off.

“Do you think Stratoh will ask me to marry him?” Selah questioned. Reims snaps her head towards her and then peeks at the stars.

“Maybe, we are going to set off to Braigan tomorrow... and it is going to be a long trip to there… maybe he’ll ask you to stay!”

“I don’t know. I do like him since he is good looking afterall… Ow, ow, ow! My hair is caught in the tree!” Selah slowly removes her tangled hair from the branch and continues, “But I don’t think I want something like that at the moment.”

“Sounds like you don’t like him that way.”

“Well, I only see him once or twice a year so what can I say? I know a lemon about him, but he IS good looking, but he also looks a bit stiff every time we meet. I think they made too much of a soldier out of him.”

“Hah. What made you wonder about this anyway?” pondering with a sly look at Selah.

SPLASH!

Reims and Selah stared at each other quietly.

“Somebody here?!” gasped Selah.

“I do not know?! We have always assumed nobody know about this place because this is the backside of the mountain,” Reims quickly respond.

Selah and Reims sneaks around the rocky wall and hides behind a small rock. Their eyes quietly peer above the stone slab, scanning around the body of water. On a perfect night, the radiant moonlight reflects off of body of water, reflecting white light back into the sky and lighting up the vacant space.

“Nobody…” Selah finally breaks the silence.

“Yeah… that was weird… probably a rock broke off?” Reims says in relief and smiles brightly to Selah. “Well that is set. We’re good to go in.” The two continues to remove their garments quickly. The air is cold but the warmth of the streaming body of water releases a wealthy amount of heat to accommodate the dead night. The girls glance around the oval shape spring that is surrounded by incline rocks forming small little mountains that look like a miniature coliseum with the water as the center. They are reassured that nobody is about, before jumping in carelessly. Steam hovers lightly into the air as the waterfall pours itself into the Dragon Tooth, while the moonlight pours into spring, illuminating the moist in the air as it reaches the body of water. The environment appears as if the place is glowing, accentuating the aurora feel of this mystifying place. In the middle of the water lies a large size stone, shape like a skeletal structure of a dragon’s head baring its fang. Perhaps a great sculpture once found sanctuary in this hidden bath or time took its toll in carving the splendid statue with water.

“Hooo… I’m cold, lets us get in before the weather wither my skin away!”

“Please Reims, we’re the adorable duo!”

SPLASH! Out emerges a man, rising from beneath the water. “URGH!” the man croaked. “Cough cough.”

Selah and Reims quickly dropped to the ground behind the rock. “What was that?! You said there’s nobody here?!” questioned Selah.

“I don’t know?! Pipe down or we are going to get caught.” A small pause before Reims continue, “Let me take a look.” Reims slowly pushes her fingers against the ground to lift herself off the ground. Getting up from her kneeling position, Reims quickly gripped the tips of her fingers against the slab in front of her for balance. With a moment of pause, she tilts her head back as she rises to avoid her head from standing out too much. She sees a man’s buttock in front of her eyes. The man’s behind stood fifteen yards away from where the girls are at. “What the…?”

“Hmm?” wondered Selah. “Hey? What’s going on up there?” Reims’s stone-face did not reply. A bit nervous but curious at the same time, Selah decided to get up herself to see what has gotten her friend’s jaw locked. The first thing she saw is the same as what Reims witnessed. “Naked man.”

Reims blushed and turned her head to the rosy looking Selah in surprise. “What are you doing? Get your head down!”

The man spun himself and chucked a small rock found in the water and hit the slab the girls are at. “Eek!” The girls sprint away naked, grabbing what clothes they can get while running in fear.

“What was that?!” another woman pops her head out from the rock wall, on the opposite side of the spring where the girls resided. “What’s going on down there Valence?” Her eyes caught a shot of Valence’s behind and turn away.

“I don’t know, there was something over there. Mind if you check? I’m chill down to the bones down there. Mister monkey is too cold to come out. Little Valence is hiberna…”

“Shut up, I get it.” She snaps with her reply. The woman climbs her way downward and surveys the surroundings. The two girls did a good job recovering their loose clothes, save an undergarment. The girl picks up the cloth and marches her way back to Valence. Valence sits comfortably in the hot spring. “Hey, I found this.”

“Ooh… let me see that,” Valence grins and lunges toward the girl to grab the garment, but before he is able to, she lifts her hands up into the air, dangling one of the girls’ bras above her head. “Oh come on now, it is an evidence to reveal who the spy is. Let me examine this piece of incriminating evidence, Ohryea.” Ohryea knit her brows and scrunches her lips. She stares at his stupid face and spites him. “Be careful there! This piece looks like it’s worth a pound of silvers.” Ohryea swings herself back to where she was sitting, waiting for her turn in the bath. Ohryea loosens the laces knotted together that bundle the piece together, unravel, and holds the bra into the sky.

            “I like it,” grins Ohryea, “think I’m gonna keep it.” Ohryea prances back towards their camp. A few skips away, Ohraya says, “This better not be yours secret perversion,” frowns, smiles, and continue on.

            Valence quickly shouts, “Hey! Set up my sleeping bag too!” and quiets down, “those look pretty big…”, Valence squeezes his palms as if he’s testing the endurance of invisible melons.