Chapter 6: First Bath
Throughout the day, I found some strength to walk on my own as I slowly map out my new surroundings. There seemed to be two beds in here along with other objects that I found myself bumping into. The woman seemed to understand what I was doing as she left me to do as I pleased. That was until I was met with a strange object poking out of the wall.
"Door." She has also been saying singular words every time I interact with something as I quickly understand that she's trying to teach me what all the objects in the room are. So this is a door?
"Here, you open it like this-" She places my hand onto the cold metal sticking out before she pushes my hand down on it, and in the next instant, I hear a 'click' sound coming from the door that I opened. I can quickly tell that this door is different than the electric one I'm used to hearing, but I can't help but focus on the woman's hand that's over mine... Her hand is so warm...
"Let's go inside." She gently places another hand on my back as she soon guides me pass the open door, still holding my hand. Don't tell me she's luring me into some kind of trap? But it was then that my feet felt cold as I walked along a hard surface, different from the one in the previous room I was in. But if the woman is also here with me, then I guess this must be safe.
Thanks to her, I didn't carelessly bump into anything, but she soon stopped me in front of something.
"Bath." She says another word as she moves my hand over to the new object. It was a lot lower than I expected as I had to bend down a bit in order to touch it. It's surface was incredibly smooth, almost similar to the surface I'm standing on. I end up running my hands along the side of the bath, trying to gauge the size of it, which seemed to have caused the woman with me to giggle almost as if she's amused. I understand that I don't know a lot of things, but is it really okay to make fun of me like that?
"Want to hop in?" Hop in? As I try and decipher what she means to say, I feel her begin to lift me back up, scooping me from my back and behind my legs. I don't flinch one bit as she does this, knowing that I can trust her at least this much, and in the next moment, I feel myself being brought back down as I feel more of the same smooth surface under me. I begin scanning around with my hands as I realize now that I'm practically surrounded by this smooth-like surface. Until suddenly, my hands meet with another metal feeling.
"Aaah!?" I couldn't help but let out a scream as I feel something spray out from whatever it is I touched as I quickly feel where I'm sitting has gotten incredibly wet. At first I thought it was blood, but upon inspecting it, it feels entirely different. With the bath filling up, I inspect this substance more, trying to figure out what it is. It's like blood, but it's far too thin. It keeps slipping out from my hands.
"Hehehe. Water." So this is water? With my newly found knowledge, I sink my hands deeper in the water, but right as I do so, I feel my body tense up as my body begins shivering.
"Ah! Sorry, one sec!" It was then that I felt the water that's slowly engulfing me begin warming up, causing my body to stop shivering from the sudden cold. "Better?" At her words, I simply nod. "Hehe, alright. Then let's get this off of you-"
At first I thought she was going to take off my mask, but I quickly realize that she's just undressing me. I'm used to this since the people here do it once a week to me before putting me in something that felt to be the same thing I wore before. But having this woman undress me... She's a lot more gentle. She's not forcefully pulling anything off, but instead gently taking my arms out of the sleeves. I honestly don't understand why she's being this kind to me since no matter what is done to me, I'll heal myself anyways. Regardless of my thoughts however, she finishes undressing me as I feel the warm water around me slowly rise up to my now bare waist.
"Ah! Wait just a moment." I feel her presence leave the outside of the bath as she moved around the room we're in before returning. "Let's get you all cleaned up." Clean... But aren't I already clean? With that thought in mind, I feel something prickly press up against my shoulder before it moves it's way along my arm, covering my whole arm in a bubbly substance. "Hehehe~" She giggles away while doing this as she scrubs all over my body. I don't feel any harm coming my way, so I let her do as she pleases as she moves my arms up and down while scrubbing my body. She ends up draining the water from the bath before rinsing all the bubbles off of me. I thought that would be it, but instead, she began filling the bath once more with water. Is she going to clean me again?
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