The pleasure palace does do those things, but you have to pay to get a membership, which is unnecessary if you just want to enjoy the palaces other activities then you just need to pay the fee, and it isn't outrageous either. There are private places that offer baths and massages, and they usually go about twenty silver for eight hours but at the pleasure palace paying fourty five silvers let's you use the baths, the massage area, and you can even spend the night in one of their hotel rooms as a reward, though that might be because when they're done massaging you, you're unable to move I roll over and look at the maid that's sitting in the chair "how long have I been out? Why did I black out?" She looks up at me and smiles, it's like the clouds have moved away from the sun "mister, you're finally awake, you've been asleep for four hours, it's almost morning, normally we wouldn't have left you asleep for so long but the young lady said that it was fine, we've also been told to give you a vip card, if you come back again you can use our services for half the cost. As for why you blacked out... the young lady said it might be because you've been fighting so long before you came back to the city. The way the pleasure palaces massage technique works is to activate the latent healing ability of the body, for those that have already unlocked a certain amount of their latent ability it tends to... reset your body, you'll permanently heal faster but it required you to sleep while your body got used to the power, it was my first time doing the massage on my own so I continued, thinking you had gone to sleep... apparently I almost killed you." That's nice to know, but why am I naked, at least I'm laying face down on the bed. After doing a quick check of my own body I learn that nothing is wrong, in fact it's like she said, I heal faster now. It isn't a large increase and is barely noticeable, but such things only fully work against poisons and other toxins, my resistance has been boosted greatly. I sit up and feel my body pop in multiple places, it feels like I've slept for Multiple days instead of just four hours, I haven't felt this good in... it's been almost three years since I was able to get a good night of sleep without worrying about being stabbed "sir, I was told that you shouldn't be awake right now, if you get up something might go wrong!" She tries to put me back down, but seems to remember that I'm naked, for she looks at my crotch and blushes before stepping back again, now that I think about it I do feel like I could go for a ride. "I'm going to get the young lady, she asked me to tell her when you woke up." She rushes from the room and I get up, making sure everything works correctly I go to the bathroom, there's a shower there, as well as a steam bath, but the shower is what interests me now, I want to see if my sixth sense has grown stronger. The water comes from above, in an area of almost ten feet. I'd say eight to nine by the same, which means that most of these rooms probably get two customers, not one. I close my eyes and struggle through the darkness trying to get a view of the area around me and notice that my sense is much better than this morning, I know battle makes it stronger, but maybe the massage helped. It's a shame I never got to take a bath. "Nicta, I'm assuming your in there? Will you please finish soon, my father wants to meet you, something about the next shining sun." I wonder if she would come in after me if I didn't answer her.
"Oh, so you've finally woken back up?" I close my eyes again, covering Cioras face "what did I tell you Nicta, we don't know how long it'll take for your body to finish resetting, don't just run around." Damn, I must've blacked out again... I don't remember getting out of the shower "how long," I stop and clear my throat, taking a moment before I speak again "how long did you wait before realizing I wasn't coming out?" She snorts and sits on the edge of the bed, this time I'm on my back, they must've just tossed me in the bed "if I had t heard your body hit the floor we would've been there a while, as it was you made a fairly loud thump, your head hit the wall, it took me three minutes to stop the bleeding. You aren't worried about how long you were in the shower?" I shake my head and sit up slowly, my back and head hurts but it's dull "I can still smell steam, so it's been at most five minutes. Does this mean I can't go anywhere?" She grabs my shoulder and drags me into a chair, then we start rolling out of the room I open my eyes and notice I'm covered in clothing "you aren't going to get out of meeting him that easy. My dad wants to meet the new student of the maiden, he also wants to thank you, for you know, the team thing." She's blushing right now, something must be happening "I am fully clothed right? You're blushing so I want to make sure. You're fully clothed as well correct?" I turn and see she's wearing a dress, the light blue fits her white skin well, it looks beautiful on her. I'd tell her but the chance that she would take it as me appreciating a beautiful woman is small, I'm not trying to get in her bed, or her heart. "we are both fully clothed you goob, so is Tillie, so there's no worries on her part either, my father and I had an... interesting conversation about my future, and what it'll mean if I join that team you're trying to implement." Goob? How old is this woman? We follow some twists and turns and soon come to a pair of double doors that are clearly locked, to which Ciora takes a key to unlock from her pocket. While she's turned around I stand up and put the wheeled chair against the wall, when Tillie opens her mouth I cover my own With a finger. The door unlocks and through my sixth sense I feel someone coming towards us, they don't feel kind, nor happy about us being here, needless to say I do t think it's her father. "Nicta! Get in the chair, I swear you're like a child." That sentence sounds well used, I wonder who else makes her say that "sorry darlin' I refuse to face a possible enemy on my ass." The doors open about that time and I move forwards, stepping in front of Ciora. Its unlikely her father has been assassinated in that short amount of time but even so it doesn't hurt to be prepared. I reach for my knife and remember it broke a few days before I entered the city, I put my sword away before I entered the city since I didn't know the city masters way of dealing with greed. My fathers sword is a very beautiful and deadly sword, right now I can't afford to get rid of it.