https://archiveofourown.org/works/89737971/chapters/238393971
"Once she was done scrubbing, she pushed him into the pool to rinse it out. After he’d shaken his head underwater like a dog, she pulled him back and started applying another oil.
“I don’t use that one,” he said, rather alarmed.
“You’re using it now,” she said, stroking it through the curls.
“I have a strict routine – “ Â
“You’re such a fucking brat,” she murmured, yanking on a piece of hair as she spoke. He yelped, but then she kept weaving her fingers through his hair, twisting them around the individual curls and rubbing the oil through them. In the silence, he contemplated her words. He’d been called worse, but most often the people who’d called him brat were trying to get him into bed with them. Was that what this was? Had there been something on that mountainside?"
Julien x Thaisha; Chapter 1/2; Explicit.
On the way back to Dol-Makjar, soaked with rain as they cross the Dvalmar Pass on foot, the Seekers find an unexpected bathing-house. Julien, still carrying injuries from an ambush on the road, takes a bath. Thaisha joins him, and washes his hair. There is hair-pulling. Julien likes it. Occtis gets involved. Vaelus stays out of all this mess.
Or: the Seekers end up in a mysterious spa, and Thaisha uses Julien as a stress ball.
