[She expects to feel a little more embarrassed at a naked boy moving closer to her in the baths—and she's not zero percent embarrassed, but she is only maybe ten percent embarrassed instead of the anticipated fifty. Not bad! She's getting this down!]

I think I'm starting to. I learned how to play table tennis! That's a lot of fun. But before this, I had only read about this kind of place. It's so different from anything I've ever experienced.

[Mash tips her head back to look up at the open-air rafters over in the rinsing area, and then beyond that, to the areas of the ryokan that she knows are a little more populated right now. Between their own conversation here, she can hear the sounds of the others having antics filtering in and across the water. It's strangely soothing even when it's concerning . . . which it often is, considering the crew here. More than once it's the sound of someone fighting. But, you know, in the way that at least sounds like it's fun?]

And reading about it can't really prepare you for what it's like with other people, either! It does feel like everyone's right at home here. But, for what it's worth, I couldn't tell you didn't know what you were doing either! Maybe I've been a little caught up in myself . . .