oh my goddess

Once she's come back to herself a bit, Isla will undoubtedly be grateful for Sunjata's gentlemanly behaviour, even if at present she barely realises what she's doing and that it's in plain view. (At least there's no one else currently enjoying the hotsprings, she supposes). "Ah, well at least I have seen waterfalls before," she says with a small smile, discarding her clothes at the side of the nearest spring. A study in opposites in almost every way, Isla is pale and free of ink and scars, though at least one of those things is liable to change now that she can bask freely in the sunlight. Slipping into the hot water, it's enough to take her breath away even if she wasn't hyper-aware of every sensation, the Remedy quite literally speechless for a long moment before even considering Sunjata's question. "It was..." Gazing up at the overarching caverns, the steam glittering against the topaz that crowns her head, Isla seems pensive, if anything, though the emotion in her pebble blues is undeniable. "It was like being given permission to live again," she admits. "It felt like dying, and coming back. I... it's hard to put it into words, sorry." ISLA when it's just the two of us, only the two of us, I could die