Zenos: What’s my character’s guilty pleasure?
Baths, particularly scented ones.
By thanks first to Myym’sae, and then after Feng, Ed has been introduced to the luxury of mineral baths. To hot, scented water with soaps and brightly colored oil in it to make her skin soft and her muscles relaxed. She enjoys the quiet, too. The ability to lay black and hear nothing but the soft ripple of water. It feels like she is somewhere else, somewhere calm, where she isn’t herself but is just still and silent and whole.
Bathing has become a relaxing habit of hers. She quite enjoys when Feng washes her hair, or plays music in the other room, and takes the time to order her thoughts and feelings where there is guarantee no one will disturb her. It gives her a chance to explore her femininity in a positive light: To add things like roses, or decorate the room with candles.
In many ways, learning to slow down to take a bath has helped her in more than one way.