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As soon as I turn, my back gets such a good flogging I melt into a puddle of meringue.
“That’s it. Time to cool off,” he says.
I don’t lift my head. “I don’t think I can move.”
“I’ll help,” he says, and I hear a mischievous note in his voice.
Wait a second. Is he about to—
Splash.
This time, I yell like a choir of stuck pigs.
He did it.
He dumped a bucket of icy water onto my overheated flesh.
When I turn, he’s standing there with another bucket.
“Wait—”
Too late.
This new batch of water engulfs me from the front. Again, the shock makes me scream, but the experience is more pleasant than not.
Hmm. First, I enjoy flogging, and now this. Is Art turning me into a masochist? We might need a new rule for that. Rule Number 666?
“Sorry,” he says. “You can do me now. Fair is fair.”
I fill the bucket, then throw the water into his face.
No reaction.
I refill it and get him from the back—mostly because I enjoy the sight of the water sluicing down the grooves of his muscles.
Again, he takes the cooldown in stride.
“I think this is enough banya for now,” he says when I put the bucket down. “We should rest a bit, eat, then come back.”
“Deal,” I say.
We exit the steam room and stop by the nearby showers before returning to our table, where our food is waiting.
As soon as our butts touch our chairs, we attack the grub.
Yum. It’s nice to satisfy at least this—a socially acceptable—hunger. Blins turn out to be delicious, especially after I dump all the preserves and honey on them.
To Art’s credit, he doesn’t bat an eye at all the sugar I’ve just consumed, nor does he try to feed me his fruit.
Just as I’m about to compliment his restraint, a guy walks up to our table, his gait wobbly—probably due to the bottle of vodka in his hands.
The newcomer hiccups, then grins at Art. “Vi Artjoms Skulme?”
Art looks up with a stern expression. “Yes. And you are?”
“My name is Vladlen,” the guy says in a pretty good, albeit slurred, English. “My mother is a huge fan of yours.”
Hey, it could be worse. He could’ve said “grandmother.”
