The Bath - Part 2
A knight gets a surprise in a bathhouse that stirs his fantasies.
The heat of the flaying hall met Konrad like a wall — a living warmth, damp and rich with the mingled scents of wet stone, oil, and steamed herbs. The male bather stood ready, birch branches already soaking in a wooden bucket, their green leaves releasing a sharp, clean fragrance. Konrad stepped forward, bare but for the steam curling around his broad Nuremberger frame. His skin, pale from winters in armor, bore the small...