The Full Treatment !

Karim told the two girls that he had paid for them to have the full treatment from Fatima. Quite what the full treatment entailed they were not sure but they laid back on the marble slabs, content to wait and in the meantime to luxuriate in the damp heat. "It's like a sauna" Debbi commented. "Yeah, but I don't think we're going to find any snow to go and jump in afterwards in Morocco" laughed Sally.

So what constituted the full treatment ? After a few minutes Fatima and the other woman, who was introduced as Bidisha, returned carrying pails of warm soapy water. They commenced to wash the two white women all over with the rich soapy suds, allowing the water to run down into the drainage sluices beneath the slabs on which they were lying. This washing was done in a vigorous manner that would be repeated for the following procedures also. Following a rinsing with clear water from the other pails, Fatima and Bidisha produced formidable looking loofahs which were used to give a thorough exfoliation !

Despite the occasional roughness of the treatment, Debbi and Sally began to feel exhilarated. After a second rinsing, the women gestured for them to turn onto their stomachs for an extensive manipulative massage. This was not a gentle winding down but a full blown workout with limbs being twisted and contorted, eliciting the occasional gasp from the English girls but undeniably loosening knots. Sally began to laugh. "Maybe I can take them back to Leeds" said the trained dancer.

"You rest minute" Fatima told them when it was adjudged that the massage was complete. It had been a strange, sometimes uncomfortable but generally pleasurable experience the girls agreed. After several more minutes of lying back and recovering, Fatima and Bidisha came back carrying clay pots. Fatima indicated that Debbi and Sally should stand up. The Moroccan women began smearing ointment all over the two naked bodies. "What's this ?" asked Sally. "Henna, good for skin" replied Fatima. "I had this before when I was in Kenya with a native tribe. It's great for your tan" said Debbi. "I hope it won't spoil Lawrence's photos" Sally worried. "Well, it won't leave any tan lines" Debbi laughed, indicating their nudity !

They were left alone again temporarily, standing there and wondering what was next, if anything. They laughed at the sight that each of them presented, daubed from heat to foot in a dark ochre colour. "They were very thorough" chuckled Sally, failing to find any spot of skin on Debbi that had been missed. "But I hope they're coming back to rinse us off" she continued. "Oh, I'm sure they will" asserted Debbi. Just then, the door reopened and Fatima and Bidisha returned empty handed !