With Giant Robots, Space Colonies, and other things.
**Option A
Splash, splash...and a sneeze. Followed by...softly muffled curses?
Lucrezia Noin came out of her dreams of silver, gold and scarlet with a start. ...The heck?
OK, where was she and...Oh, one of Instructor Treize's family's places, right. They'd gotten rained in and the transportation had been delayed...
But what the heck was that splashing, anyway?
Bathroom, bathroom. This place was so darn...big, damnit.
Alright, then, there was the big ornate bathroom (sauna disconnected, which made her former Instructor sad) with the really big roman-style (she thought that was it, anyway) bath, with real genuine mineral waters from the local hot spring, and...
Noin stopped, then. And stared.
And then she muffled a laugh.
Treize Khushrenada was there, true. Fully dressed in the most ornate quasi-Dark Age style outfit, complete with something that appeared to be a sword, and boots.
He also was half sitting in the not-really-a-natural-hot-spring bath, and sopping wet to boot.
"Instructor Treize, just what are you..."
And it was exactly that moment that she noticed his hair.
It was down to his shoulders, and tied back with a cord.
Only this evening...it hadn't been that long, had it?
Which meant...which meant...
Lucrezia Noin sighed, then.
Longer hair. And...those rings on his fingers...
And his eyes. Did he look older, just a little?
Not to mention the arm-cuffs. And the...other things.
(That's why you should pay attention to dreams, Lucrezia)
"...Instructor Treize. Get out of those clothes and get dry. - I'll cut your hair, all right?"
Not that he was really her Instructor any more, but whatever, whatever.
Treize gave her a puzzled look, but nodded.
It's alright, Your Majesty. Stay puzzled a for just little more, and ask me no questions.
And your Sage will tell you no lies.
**Option B
Splash, splash...and a sneeze. Followed by...softly muffled curses?
Lucrezia Noin came out of her dreams of silver, gold and scarlet with a start. ...The heck?
They'd only been transferred to this particular base a week ago, and she still wasn't used to the noises of the place.
But those noises where coming from ...her commanding officer's room, if she wasn't mistaken.
...Darn. If it was almost any other commanding officer, she'd just go back to sleep, but...
Ah, well. Just go, girl.
"...Ins - Sir, are you all right?"
A mumble, then -
"I am all right, Noin. Just - go back to -"
Oh no she wasn't. That sounded like a cut-off moan of pain, damnit.
"I'm coming in, sir."
Am I glad I know how to hot-wire doors at a moment's notice? Yes I am!
"Noin, don't -"
Too late for that, sir.
Treize Khushrenada was half bent over the bed, wrapped in bath towels. He looked like hell, Noin thought.
And what was that on his stomach? It looked like a half-mangled belt, melted into flesh -
And then she saw the glyph on the "belt", and it hit her.
"...Kuuga?"
Treize gaped though his quite obvious pain.
".........What?"
**Option C
Splash, splash...and a sneeze. Followed by...softly muffled curses?
Lucrezia Noin came out of her dreams of silver, gold and scarlet with a start. ...The heck?
They'd only been transferred to this particular base a week ago, and she still wasn't used to the noises of the place.
But those noises where coming from ...her commanding officer's room, if she wasn't mistaken.
...Darn. If it was almost any other commanding officer, she'd just go back to sleep, but...
Ah, well. Just go, girl.
"...Ins - Sir, are you all right?"
A mumble, then -
"I am all right, Noin. Just - go back to -"
Oh no she wasn't. That sounded like a cut-off moan of pain, damnit.
"I'm coming in, sir."
Am I glad I know how to hot-wire doors at a moment's notice? Yes I am!
"Noin, don't -"
Too late for that, sir.
Treize Khushrenada was half draped over the bed, wrapped in bath towels. He looked like hell, Noin thought. And she thought she'd seen bad bruises...and...
"...Who..."
Noin chocked, and gulped.
"Sir! Who did that to you!"
"...Hush...Noin, it's all right..."
"It's not all right, how could it be -"
And that was when the oddly ornate harp with it's case on his bed caught her attention.
............Whaaaa.............."
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a damn minute -
"...You're...You're a Oni?"
Treize looked at her, then.
"Oh, ahh...."
"...I am. Part-time. ...In a business where they aren't supposed to be any part-timers, as you perhaps know already, Noin."
So he knew about her family, then.
"Wha...I mean, who does the support stuff? You shouldn't be out there without a proper support system, a organization..."
Treize chuckled, then.
"Oh, I have my ways. I don't fight the Makamou unless I have to, anyway."
"...They have this tendency to, uh, come look for those who fight them, sir. I think."
"Yes, yes..."
Treize sighed. Noin bit her lip. This was no time to interrogate him, now was it.
"Let's get you cleaned up first, sir, alright?"
**Option D
Splash, splash...and a sneeze. Followed by...softly muffled curses?
Lucrezia Noin came out of her dreams of silver, gold and scarlet with a start. ...The heck?
OK, where was she and...Oh, one of Instructor Treize's family's places, right. They'd gotten rained in and the transportation had been delayed...
But what the heck was that splashing, anyway?
Bathroom, bathroom. This place was so darn...big, damnit.
Alright, then, there was the big ornate bathroom (sauna disconnected, which made her former Instructor sad) with the really big roman-style (she thought that was it, anyway) bath, with real genuine mineral waters from the local hot spring, and...
Noin stopped, then. And stared.
And then she muffled a laugh.
Treize Khushrenada was there, true. Fully dressed in, of all things, a Tuxedo.
He also was half sitting in the not-really-a-natural-hot-spring bath, and sopping wet to boot.
And the bath was utterly plastered with roses.
"Instructor Treize, just what are you..."
"...I have no idea?"
Noin snickered. So did Treize, after a while.
"...So many roses. There never would be enough vases..."
**Option E
Splash, splash...and a sneeze. Followed by...softly muffled curses?
Lucrezia Noin came out of her dreams of silver, gold and scarlet with a start. ...The heck?
Instructor Treize?
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