"Fair shout, maybe I should look into magical locking."

"All these locks. City folk are so antisocial."

"People could try to steal my stuff! Had I anything worth stealing! Which I'm sure I will someday!"

"I can't recommend it."

"...you know what, fair enough. Oh! Hold on." He turns around and sprints back the few paces to his room so that he can grab his paper and ink before rejoining the other two. "I am still going to have so many questions."

"Just don't bathe it with you."

"I've got a drying spell! ...which would probably target the ink too, hmm. Maybe I could—no, that'd require too much sustained attention—yes, I'll be careful."

The washroom isn't really that far, though, just at the end of the hallway. There are communal showers and baths, all of which are powered by magic drawing from the magic crystal in the center of the building, which functions as an enormous mana battery that pretty much every mage in the building is constantly feeding into whenever they're not using it.

"Oh, lovely, like having a swimming pond right near your bed."

Arik makes as if to leap into one of the larger communal baths, then remembers Vallynn's paper and wades in instead.

...that's adorable. Arik is adorable.

Alright, anyway, Vallynn also wants to get the dry cum off him and, most importantly, off his clothes, but he doesn't want to actually go into a bath so instead he just uses the shower for both things.

"...I'm assuming you have a spell to dry your clothes or something?"

"Yeah."

"Mind sharing?"

"It'll cost you."

"How much?"

"I'll decide later."

"What am I getting myself into," he says, grinning, but he does start undressing again. He's regretting having gotten dressed in the first place, honestly, his gear has too many belts and buckles.

"Nothing you'll regret, I'm sure," Arik contributes.

"I think Vallynn might be too squeamish to make me pay something I regret."

"I think I am just actually not able to do that, you get off on everything."

"You're not wrong."

But bantering aside, after making sure Taharqi isn't carrying any potions or poisons or whatever else which would be damaged by having all of its water evaporate, Vallynn is perfectly willing to dry Taharqi's clothes. Then they can go. "We could eat at the cafeteria here but I feel like I'd be a bad host if we did that. Even though I wasn't expecting any guests."

"I have recently come into money. We could go be frivolous about that."

"I think you're a little bit too illiquid. But no, Taharqi's treat, he's the one who showed up unannounced and dragged you with plus he's loaded."

"...I am?"