"Eric... you're a woman...?" Benjamin voiced in shock, his voice cracking with disbelief.
His eyes were glued to the crotch of the green-haired elf, staring with, his jaw hanging slightly open as he processed what he was seeing—or rather, what he was not seeing.
Benjamin had run away from the awkwardness of Siberia and Kapil's bathing area, fleeing the scene of uncomfortable tension, and appeared in Eric's hot spring side of the secluded mountain.
It was a place of solitude and peace far from the complications he had left behind.
But to Eric himself/herself, who had been enjoying the quiet warmth of the water without any expectation of company, Benjamin's sudden appearance was startling.
The basin was wide enough for ten people to fit in comfortably, its surface stretching across the rocky floor of the spring, the water steaming gently in the cool mountain air.
