The human's friends fill an enormous, deep tub with hot water, saposin rich flowers, and several doses of lavender oil. The human DID say they loved lavender scented bubble baths. -- Anon Guest
Space does not encourage water immersion for reasons that quickly become obvious the more you know about freefall. So when spacers come to shore leave on a planet, the first thing they do is head for large and indulgent bodies of their chosen fluid. It's no surprise that port towns have a lot of swimming pools and bath houses.
And when they're very far from such places, yet still in a gravity well... some people dearly want to dunk themselves and soak. Which is not safe in an unfamiliar biome.
Companions Ans and Uum noticed that Human Nhi was getting 'tetchy' four weeks into the planetary survey. No matter how thorough the cleansing booths were, Nhi was bemoaning the absence of pools, hot tubs, and baths. Especially baths.
A happy Human leads to a happy base habitat.
Uum and Ans put their heads together with the base engineer to create the Perfect Bathtub. A prefab liquid container, heating elements, and pumps for massage potential. As for the filling of the tub... they went out on all of Nhi's mentioned favourites. Flowers that smelled like Earth's famous lavender, that also had a load of saposin in their chemistry, as well as the lavender oils and bath crystals printed for the occasion.
Nhi guessed they were up to something, since the whole box and dice was in a new habitat hemisphere. It was hard to hide. At least forbidding Nhi to see inside was helping them stay mentally active during the preparations. Though it did lead to days upon days of, "Is it ready yet?"
Finally, though, it was.
Ans and Uum worried that they might have overdone the sapocin as well as the lavender. Yet, when Human Nhi entered the space, their eyes immediately watered from gratitude.
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