"Oh, would it be okay if I took Baby Clover to the Bigender shower even though I'm a woman?" Libby asked when Piper explained the bathroom situation to the three Starlings. "Absolutely." Piper agreed. They had gendered bathrooms, which obviously tried to cover every part of the colony's belief of the gender spectrum. Boys, Girls, Neither, Both, Other. Vega was the one rudely snickering this time instead of Scarlet for once. "What if my gender is Apache Attack Helicopter?" she asked with a huge smirk, but neither Piper nor Libby really knew what Vega was talking about so they just gave her an awkward smile. She awkwardly cleared her throat and tried to think of a polite way to say she knew the moment she'd walk into the girl's bathroom, she would see a mans body and that was the thing that made her uncomfortable. Vega decided to just say she'll pass on the shower.

Scarlet and Libby had no problem with it and both stood under hot water in separate rooms. The way the water poured down Scarlet's hair and onto her scalp made her sigh and she ran her fingers through her hair. The entire bathroom was shared between all the woman in the cult. The toilets were in stalls but the shower was just a large room with multiple shower heads coming from the ceiling and parts of the walls. Scarlet looked down at her body and frowned at how her stomach was sticking out. Any other time Scarlet wouldn't care about that because she showered alone. Right now there were probably 7 other people in there with her.

But, like Vega feared, Scarlet noticed a lot of the woman of the colony actually had the bodies of men. She didn't really care so after noticing she went back to her own business. She did, however, shower in between two cisgender woman. It was more comfortable to her. "How was your journey, Scarlet?" a purple and pink haired woman asked from behind. She felt a hand on her shoulder and Scarlet turned around to slap it away, "Don't touch me."

"Oh, sorry." The woman's sorry expression abruptly turned to an overjoyed surprise,"Want to see me balance on my head?!"

"You should see it, it's actually pretty great." Another woman on the other side of the room chimed in. Everyone else in the shower started to mutter in agreement. Scarlet couldn't help but feel that little tickle of "yes, time for another circus"

"Yeah, okay." She awkwardly laughed. The pink and purple woman got down on her hands and knees on the shower floor and very awkwardly kicked her legs up, but just kind of, and instantly fall back down. She tumbled to the side and landed on the side of her bum. Everyone in the shower very calmly told her she did great and helped her up. A few gave her a hearty slap on the back and then went back to showering. Scarlet chuckled and went back to washing her hair.

"So how was it?" the woman to the left of Scarlet asked. "The what?" Scarlet replied. "Your celestial soul journey." Scarlet chuckled, but in reality that was one of the worst trips she's ever been on. "It was uh--" the moment there was an inkling that Scarlet was about to tell a story everyone in the shower quickly scuttled towards her and crouched on to the floor of the shower to get comfortable. Scarlet shuttered at the idea of being the center of attention and felt herself slip into anxiety. Then she realized something. All of these people are nutjobs, but they were nutjobs that took everything seriously while at the same time keeping things as light as possible. It reminded her somberly of somebody else. She cleared her throat and tried her best to remember the fever dream trip she experienced.

"When it first started, it was like a pair of garage doors. They slowly opened up because of a weight leaning on it on the other side. The doors fell open and what looked like an old high school bully of mine... fell on the ground. She crawled towards me on her stomach because she didn't have any arms or legs. Naturally, I ran but she was able to keep up because her neck was long so she could bang her head against the floor in a way that made her bounce toward me. The room stretched out but I kept running. Finally, I got to the other side of the room and I tried to punch the wall to break a hole in it, but anytime I would try to strike the wall I would go in slow motion but everything else stayed the same speed. I don't remember how I got there, but I think I was in the forest, just like out of nowhere, and I tried to remember what just happened. I thought of Piper and your stories actually," Scarlet made eye contact with each one and they all smiled happily knowing they made an impact, "and I remembered how you lunatics really fucking like space. So I started panicking because I wasn't actually sure if I was on planet earth or not. Anyway, I'm running through the forest and suddenly the sun rises and the light is so blinding it physically blew back the trees, clouds, and then me! I flung off the ground and into space."

"How long were you in space?" A green haired woman asked.

"I don't know. I don't remember landing on any planets or landing back on earth but I actually think I saw a jellyfish up there. I'm pretty sure it almost married me... Not me, like, it was my husband or whatever, but I met this empress thing. It was like a..." Scarlet scrambled in her head trying to remember the horrific trip she went on, "I think she was some kind of kangaroo. She was actually really nice, we got married as best friends I think it was something they did at the planet." Two woman suddenly let out a high pitch noise, "Oh! Me and Ursa got married as best friends!"

"I wasn't there, but I heard it was great," another woman whispered to the lady sitting in front of her.

Scarlet awkwardly laughed and ran her fingers through her hair, which made her remember more details, "My hair grew into a big ponytale at some point and she kept hiding jolly ranchers in my hair. But like, they were wrapped so it wasn't a big deal, I think it was supposed to be a prank but I dunno"

Everyone in the shower happily chuckled at the cute turn the story had taken, "See? That's what pranks should be! Instead of humiliating and tricking someone, it's surprise candy!" Everyone happily murmured to each other about how great Scarlet's new wife is. It made Scarlet even more excited to tell them the horrific shit that happened after.

"Yeah, I fell through the planet and landed in some church. The middle of the planet was a jellyfish thing and it told me I was soulbound to the kangaroo empress or something. Then I caught on fire for a few minutes, it was actually fucking horrific. It's tentacled wrapped around my whole body and it's tentacles started like... okay do any of you know what hentai is?" Nobody answered. "Well there' a kind of porn where a chick gets fucked by tentacles--" everybody abruptly gasped in shock and horror. "What?! When I have sex with my octopus wife from Jupiter I'm in a porn?!" "When it's with a tentacle creature it's automatically fucking?! I thought we were making love all those times!!"

Everybody began to chatter in panic and Scarlet whistled between her fingers to get their attention again, "Let me rephrase. It wrapped it's tentacles around me and made love to me."

Everyone immediately calmed down, agreeing with each other that that about sounded right. "It wasn't that romantic cause I didn't finish or anything and I don't remember about the fish, but I remember out of nowhere it started whispering things to me." They all leaned in closely as if to make this part of the story more private, "She said things about the sun, and how it's going to seem brighter I think? Like the sun was... ugh, something about it being like too dark or too bright." Scarlet took a moment to try and remember what it said to her, but a cult member had already interrupted her, "What was the voice like?"

"...It was familiar. It was calming, and Nobel. Very regal, actually. It was an older woman's voice so it was just inherently authoritative, but it the whole calm and regal thing just put a calming edge to it. Does that make any sense?"

"Absolutely." One of them instantly responded.

"... But anyway, uh... fuck some other stuff happened in that weird jellyfish place, but I can't remember. Anyway, at some point, it just chucked me back into space and I crashed through a planet that consisted only of ants. But I got over it because when I was finally able to focus my eyes again I could see Piper sitting across from me reminding me to breathe and that's when I threw up on everyone then all the screaming in disgust took me out of my high. Sorry again by the way."