Chapter 7 Chastity

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Chapter 7 Chastity

Leila and Ardith were in the lavatory, a small room with a huge brass bath tub in the middle. A wide open window let the falling sun feeble rays in while the servants left through a back door after the bath was set. Only a wardrobe, an oval full body mirror and a table set with soaps, and different sized glass bottles filled with colorful thick bath infusions completed the scarce but exquisite furniture.

 White patches of soap foam floated above the warm water's surface distilling a soft aroma of lavender and chamomile

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White patches of soap foam floated above the warm water's surface distilling a soft aroma of lavender and chamomile. Leila pricked the water with her fingers while Ardith took a nightgowns from the wardrobe and set the towels next to the tub. When she turned around she found her guest standing right in front of her. The raven haired lady gave a few steps back undressing with unusual sensuality. On her rosy plump lips beamed up a mischievous smile. Her manners resulted somehow unpleasant for innocent Ardith at the beginning, but in the way Leila kept with her erotic dance-like doings and the suggestive movements, as she let off her garments piece by piece, it made Ardith incapable to move. She only stared at the countess and her brazen behavior until Leila just let her dress drop to the floor to reveal all her glorious nudity.

The woman paraded, reaching closer to the duchess. Ardith couldn't gaze other else than Leila anymore. Her eyes scanned every inch of the exotic woman's body. From top to bottom Leila was beyond perfection. Her skin looked silky healthy and white as the snow on the top of the mountains... So fair that it almost irradiated an ethereal mist. A glossy dark straight hair fell like a veil down her back and some threads were slightly posed over her round, pink and erected nipples as if placed on purpose to make her even more appealing.

Leila stood straight up coquettishly exposing, with all sighs of vanity and self confidence, her bareness. Her hands naturally rested over the curvy hips. Her slender feet seemed to float as she sauntered with grace towards Ardith who was submerged in some sort of bedazzling trance that captivated her to the point immobility.

"Ardith, me dear. What are you doing?", Leila spoke and that woke her up from the state of numbness she was immerse and after realizing where she was staring at and that Leila noticed she felt ashamed. The innocent lady had never seen a naked woman, not in the way she saw Leila with all her femininity uncovered. However, far from feeling any kind of ignominy, Leila acted as if she enjoyed what she provoked in the virginal maiden. Her wide, wrecked smile made Ardith blush even more. Already standing in front of Ardith, the raven haired extended her hand to stroke her golden hair intertwining some locks between her fingers in a coquettish and playful manner. After studying her reactions, Leila and asked the duchess in a sultry voice, "Have you ever seen a naked woman before?"

"No. Well, yes... But not completely naked." Ardith retreated, giving quick and short steps back avoiding a body contact with Leila in any form. Yet deep inside there was an urge, she wanted to touch her and that made her feel uneasy. The young lady was shaking, and her body temperature rose on her skin. A surge of hot blood drained right up to her face making her flush.

Leila shamelessly turned around and walked to the bath tub. As she moved, her dark and long hair hung lank and freely slightly brushing her firm and round buttocks. Ardith again was fixated to Leila's perfectly carved silhouette, feeling uncomfortable with the tingling sensations on her skin, yet she stood there and  followed Leila until she submerged herself in the warm water of the tub with exceeding sensuality.

The duchess urged to leave the bathroom in that instant and so she did. It was unbearable, her hands were sweating and the prickling on her skin was more than she could stand. Like nothing experienced by her before, her thoughts swirled around the woman in the tub and it began to bother her. Trying to ease her spirits down, the lady strutted across the room inhaling and exhaling deeply.

It was after a few minutes that Leila finally left the bathtub and wrapped in a thick white fabric that served as a drying towel, she walked out the lavatory. Ardith waited for her sitting on the bed, by that her thoughts had cleared a bit.

"That bath was so comforting. It has been like a century since the last time I enjoyed a warm bath. Thanks to that and the broth you gave me, I feel that I have renewed my strengths... Thank you my dear friend." Leila smiled standing in front of the castle's mistress.

"You don't need to thank me. I'm sure would have done the same for me. It's the duty of every Christian to help those in need", Ardith replied heading to the lavatory to get the gown shed taken before from the dresser for Leila. Apparently the woman had forgotten it there. Once the lady was back in the bedroom, she placed the dress over the bed and waited for Leila's approval.

Leila took off the towel in the same natural manner she had undressed in the bathroom short ago. Ardith's face reddened and quickly she gazed away trying not to see Leila naked again.

"Now you can uncover your eyes silly girl. I'm already dressed. I can't believe people in this part of the country are so chaste." Leila giggled.

"Nudity is a sin." Ardith replied quickly.

"If it's a sin, God would have created man and woman with clothes, but He did not." Leila retorted as she got dressed. Ardith found no answer to the dark-haired reasoning. "Please Ardith, help me comb my hair... do you?"

"Sure, let me get the brush right away." Ardith sought the brush while the countess sat on the bed siding a smile on her face. With gentleness, the duchess combed Leila's hair while they conversed pleasantly.

After she was done, the blonde lady placed the brush on the bed side table

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After she was done, the blonde lady placed the brush on the bed side table. "Well, I'm retiring to my chambers. It's late night and I'm tired... I need some rest Leila, and you need rest too."

Ardith was about to walk away, but before she could even make it to the door, Leila spoke. "Please stay with me tonight. I'm afraid of darkness... You don't know the terrible nights I spent out there in the woods. The sounds of the night and the creatures that crawl in the woods in the wee hours are dreadful." Leila begged.

Thinking on Leila's terrifying experience moved her spirits, a lump formed inside her throat. She definite could even imagine the other girl's suffering. Ardith always had slept in the security of her castle, and her heart wrinkled to only think of the horrid moments Leila had experienced and deeply touched, she couldn't do anything but accept Leila's request.

"Okay, I'll stay with you tonight." Ardith replied in a tender voice.

Leila jumped on the bed with excitement. The sudden outburst of joy and vigorous reaction contrasted greatly with the deplorable state Leila showed before, but the lady didn't pondered. Briskly, the countess hugged Ardith. "Thank you my sweet Ardith. You don't know how much I appreciate everything you've done for me", Leila placed a kiss on the duchess' cheek and holding hands both went to bed.

***Leila... What do you think of her? What about her behavior? What do you think of Ardith's reaction?

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