Stahn was right, she did need to calm down. She could feel the tension in every 
muscle in her body as she slid into the warm water of the hotsprings. She laid 
back quitely as she stared at the ceiling. Her long dark hair soaked up a bit of 
the water and clung to the back of her neck. 

"How the hell did I get here?" Sam muttered to herself as she attempt to relax, 
"And why do Human's find warm water so comforting, if anything I feel only wet 
and warm." 

She sneered and made comments to the air, never caring if anybody heard her or 
not. In fact she would have found it all the more comfortable if at least one 
person was listening. She huffed agian as she tried harder to relax. She calmed 
down a little and stop trying to squirm into a comfortable possition. 

"If I don't stop this I'll scrap my ass apart," Sam growled as she attempted to 
stay till, "But I have to admit this is kinda good." 

***** 

**Get up!** 

The leather and metal covered teacher priest yelled as it struck at a young woman 
wearing little to protect her from it's barbed whip. The strike of the spiked 
leather strand scared the young woman as she attempted to correct her mistake. 

**Get up!** 

Another crack, a rush of pain surged through her young form. She got up quickly 
before the next strike could come. 

**Good. Now Work!** 

Another whipcrack and more pain. She just shrugged it off and went to her 
business. She knelt down to plant another patch of Razor grass. Pricking her 
finger she put it into her mouth to stop the blood flow. 

**Work!!** 

This time a slash crossed her back. She went down to the ground on her face. She 
could feel the blood as it moved down her sides to the ground. She could tell 
another whip crack was comeing, she just ignored it as she got up and started 
over agian. 

*** 

Sam slowly removed herself from the water, and ran her hand along the scars on 
her back. They were still sore over a thousand years. There was Phyrexian 
ingenuaty for you, not only eternal life, but eternal pain. Sam sigh as she 
pulled her clothes over her body and tied all the buckles ment to keep her body 
safe from molten material. She doubted they would ever work, but she never wanted 
to try. She just sighed agian. 

"How relaxing, I feel so much better," Sam sneered as she walked away, "I guess 
an hour of hot water can't undo a millenium of stress." 

She walked out of the room trailling a little water dropplets from her hair.