They spent the next several days working through the various steps for preparation and the actual trial with The Trio. Felicity kept changing it up on who she took first to make sure she didn't settle into too much of a routine.
"I still can't believe that most of your responsibilities around here involve just having sex with me, that seems a bit odd." Felicity commented as they were heading out to the baths again for their prep session. She was starting to enjoy the prep session a lot.
"Well, we do our morning routines, as you see from breakfast and prayers, then we get some things done later in the afternoon, so it's not all you, even though that's the best part of my day." Bella gushed.
"Oh, me too." said Eden with the brightest smile on her face.
"Okay, as long as you're sure." Felicity replied, somewhat satisfied that she wasn't being a burden. "I do have one other silly question for you though, what exactly is this place called anyway? I get goddesses and golden lips and all that, but it has to have an official name, right?" Felicity asked. "So far, in the days I've spent here, no one ever mentioned that."
"Well, they tried the Sisterhood, but that was taken. Sisterhood of the Golden Lips wasn't enough of a change either." Bella responded. "I'm not great with remembering most things, like the actual name, but the random trivia stuck for some reason."
"I heard they even tried Golden Lips Oasis, but that sounded too much like a strip club, so they didn't go with that one either." Eden chimed in. Everyone giggled at that one just as they were reaching the baths. "But we just call it the retreat. We're not really sure what the name is supposed to be, but that's what everyone says when they're doing outreach or other work, if they are even asked about it."
"I would think there needs to be an official name somewhere for charity purposes, mail and official stuff like that. Right?" Felicity was overthinking things for now as they had more important things to focus on than mailing addresses and registered charities. At least Eden and Bella had more important things to focus on, Felicity's trials with The Trio.
They entered the baths, which luckily seemed to always be the right time of the day, and it looked like they would have the place to themselves again for a while. That suited Felicity just fine as she was still a little awkward having people watch as Bella and Eden prepared her for the trials.
"Don't worry about that stuff now, ask the headmistress if you're really worried, but she'll probably think that you're here from the government doing an audit or something." Bella tried to move them along back to the more important things while Eden had her hands all over the other important things getting Felicity's dress off.
"Hey, easy there. I know you're eager, but I think I can get my dress off myself right now." Felicity tried to slow Eden down a bit without sounding too harsh. She knew she could have a bit of a tone at times and hoped she hadn't struck it too brashly with them.
"Sorry, I just really want to get to the good parts. I know we've done this a few times already, but it really is the highlight of my day most days." Eden apologized and blushed as she looked away and went over to the oil fonts that were along the side of the pool to get them ready as usual. She sniffed a couple and then rearranged them as she moved one to be closer to the bath in front, placing the brass container into the recess along the edge of the tile.
Bella had taken her dress off and piled it neatly on a small table, Eden did the same when she was done with the oils. Felicity slid hers over her head and got stuck a bit on her bust and then almost caught her earring again as Eden looked on shaking her head. "Maybe I should have helped after all?" She said with a sly little grin, trying not to look too smug.
Felicity placed her dress in a messy heap atop the other two perfectly folded garments and walked over to where Bella and Eden were standing.
"You know the basic routine by now with the oils, but we should keep this different as well. Would you like Eden to start with the oil this time, or would you like a different kind of challenge?" Bella asked.
"How different exactly?" Felicity asked, her nerves a bit on edge as she always was during their practice sessions. It was mostly her being eager and anxious to get into it now as she enjoyed the sessions at least as much as the other girls.
"We could blindfold you during the prep part. You wouldn't know for sure who's hand it might be, we could both be doing it and we could change things up since you couldn't anticipate where we were standing or moving toward, aside from the gently movement of the water." Bella explained, a slight deviousness snuck into her tone as she worked through all the idea she had in her mind and she started to warm a bit herself.
"Um. Okay. I think that will heighten the experience in some ways, plus force me to focus and will be a very good test I believe." Felicity responded with all of her logic laid out for everyone to see.
"Good. Let me get something for that." Bella moved to the cabinets along the edge of the bath areas and found a hand towel that would do the trick. She moved back over to Felicity and started to wrap her eyes, tightly enough to block out the light, but not to make it uncomfortable. This wasn't a session about pain, they could always just do that themselves if they wanted to be penitent before the goddess.
She secured the towel and looked at Felicity to make sure she wasn't looking back. She then took a few steps around and watched as Felicity tried to follow the sound, but had no idea what she was looking for. Satisfied that the blindfold worked well enough she signaled to Eden to come help her get Felicity into the baths.
"Ready to begin then?" Bella asked softly to not give too much away about her position in the room yet.
