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"Well...then I should take advantage of the hospitality." You muse as you look around the compound. "Where can I take a bath here. It'd be nice to finally enjoy some basic luxuries once more."
"I would have guessed food would have been the first thing on your mind." Hien says as he begins to lead the way around the stone paths. You shrug.
"Easy for you to say, you're completely pampered. If it wasn't for that hair of yours, I'd have thought you to be a cousin or something." You say as you adjust your bag. "At the very least I have some clean clothing. But after that we can have you demand a feast in our honor. That's what princes do right? Feast and then find another reason to hold a banquet?" You tease.
"Well not exactly in that order." Hien says with a laugh. "But that sounds about right given some of my generation. Come on then. The bath houses are over here. We'll use the family ones."
"Houses? For a single family?" You say. "I mean I was joking about the feasting. I know the nobility is rich..."
"And so was I." Hien smirks. "But the Feng family does have private baths while the servants have their own bath houses." Hien leads you deeper into the compoun and the extravagance was not relegated to the front it seemed. You pass various gardens and ponds in the intersections. Various exotic fishes swam in them and you see servants tending to the plants among them. Despite their social status, the servants were dressed nicely and seemed to be in good health as they chatted away while they worked only to be stunned into silence as your group passed. They did their best to genuflect at their prince but were too busy trying to fight through the fear of your presence and the confusion of you being there to do it properly. The guards merely waved them back to work as you continue towards the back of the home.
As you wander the open halls, you being to note the wealth that the Feng family had amassed and your mind struggles to even think about how much more wealthy Hien's family was and how it was even possible to live more lavishly than this. Compared to your home, which you had once thought to be quite wealthy if not adhering to a more ascetic lifestyle, you now realize the vast difference between your social status and those around you. Lost in your thoughts, you only realize you had arrived when your group stops. "Here we are." Hien says motioning to a row of doors lining one side of a hall. Across from there were lockers much like those you saw in the public bath houses though these were more ornate and contained no real security, evidence of how safe the Feng family felt in their home. Along the wall was also a set of benches which you knew to be there for social gatherings as people waited for their turn to bathe.
