Diamonds are a girls' best friend

''I'll do just that My lady,'' Rayah's light footsteps exit the room.

''Then I'll see you when we are set and ready to go,'' I tell her.

Elva pops our her head from a corner of the room, ''Karina, your bath is ready,''

''Ah yes,'' I eagerly get up from where I reclined.

Anna and Morwen two of my junior handmaidens guide me into my bathhouse where everything has been set up by Elva. They help me out of my clothes before lowering me into the pool of warm water filled with bath salts, cloves, eaglewood, lilies, and also powdered jade.

Anna lathers soap on me and my body is thoroughly scrubbed of dirt as well as dead dry skin cells while my hair is tenderly taken care of by Morwen. The pool is emptied of it's content and I watch in silence as it spirals down the drain in a rhythmic motion. With the push of a button she fills it up again before leading the girls out the crystal bathhouse. Their light footsteps fade until the door behind me slides shut.