She joins her for a bath.

"Eep?"

The former cave-girl probed her teeth with her tongue to make sure she didn't knock any loose before standing up. She brushed off stray bits of grass clinging for her pelt.

"Eep, are you okay?"

Now that a pelt-less, shell-less version of Dawn was right in front of her, the weird, overwhelming sensation in her nethers hit her like a Moommoth stampede. She saw a bunch of scars on parts of her she didn't know about, having either been obscured by a layer of dirt or her clothes, but Eep barely noticed them, instead landing her eyes on her breasts.

"They're symmetrical," remarked an intrusive thought.

"Eep? Hello, Eep?"

Her eyes drew a line down her flat stomach.

"Does she groom herself down there too?"

"Hey Eep!"

Dawn grabbed both of her forearms and shook her, which seems to jostle her back into reality.

"You took a big fall. Are you feeling alright?"

Eep felt a hand on her forehead. It felt cold on her skin, and she suddenly realized her body felt hot.

"I-uh, yeah! Wha-whap-what are you doing here?"

Dawn felt a sudden need to cover herself. She didn't know why. She compromised and let go of Eep so that she could hug herself.

"Oh you know. It's been a week, so I thought I'd take my weekly bath."

"Bath?"

"Yeah."

"...this is a bath?"

"Yeah? Why?"

"Well, it's just... a bath for my family involves hanging off a ledge or a branch and mom thwacking the dirt off of us. Keeps the bedbugs off."

"But what about the B.O.?"

"The what?"

"You know, the smell?"

"What smell?"

It was then that she realized what the weird smell coming off the famed Croods sleep-pile was. It came from all of them. Dawn will need to consider how to talk them all into bathing too.

One thing at a time, Dawn. One thing at a time.

"Well, there's nothing more refreshing than a nice cool dunk in the hot summer. You wanna join?"

"So you bath like you swim? Sounds like fun."

"Sometimes it is. You just get naked and then--"

Dawn's words caught up with her brain before she could go further.

"Dawn, if you really like Eep like that, I think you need to talk to her about it."

Dawn felt the sickness return. Hot cheeks, heart palpitations, a sudden urge to just look at Eep and do nothing else. Her palms didn't feel sweaty, but her whole body was still wet, so they could be sweaty under that.

"O-or I could take my bath and I could leave you alone. To bathe. Alone."

She turned around and Eep's pelt was draped over the same branch Dawn had hung her bra and trousers. Eep made sure the pelt wouldn't fall or fly off in the breeze, and Dawn's eyes followed the center of her back, framed perfectly by her broad shoulders, down to her butt. Dawn could have thrown anything at it and she knew it would have bounced right off of it.

Dawn felt the reflex from before. Like she was looking at something she shouldn't, and that she should look away and cover her eyes lest she suddenly caught fire or something.

"You know, it feels kind of nice like this," said Eep. While Dawn thought it sounded pretty cavalier, Eep's thoughts were all over the place. "I'm callin it 'Au Naturale'."

She put her hands on her perfect hips.

"So how do you do 'swimbath'?"

Dawn suppressed a squeak when her eyes saw her bright red bush for a split second.

"Uh, there's nothing too it. We can, uh, wash each other's backs and, uh, yeah.."

She turned around and shimmied her way back into the pond.

Without even knowing, Dawn traded her own awkwardness from seeing Eep's rear-end with Eep, who drunk in the sight of Dawn's own butt as it sunk into the water.