Chapter 39: Blind Intimacy - Chris

There’s only one other door in here, and I really hope it’s a bathroom. I walk over to the door to the right, peek my head in and to my relief, it’s a bathroom. It’s small with brown wood lining the walls and floor. It looks more like a sauna. Even the tub is above ground with brown wood panelling around it. But who really cares? A bath is a bath.

I get to work running the water. I find some shampoo, conditioner and body wash and line them up along the edge of the tub. I take a look around as the tub fills up and grab some towels, also placing them on the edge of the tub, and then I manage to find a bathrobe, but it’s not the robe I’m after. I grab the tie from around the robe and yank it off. This is going to have to do.

Once the tub is filled enough, I turn off the tap. Here goes nothing. I take the tie from the robe and tie it tight around my eyes, instantly plunging myself into darkness. Time to let my other senses do the work for me. This must be what life is like for Yildiz, c