Mmh. That depends on how you plan to handle shaving me in the future.

[Which is an acknowledgement of his continued concession. Kratos has no objection to being cleanshaven; at this point knowing that the seal might be affecting his feelings on the matter is cause to let someone else make that judgment call.

[Carefully keeping his bandages out of the water, Kratos finds the end of his braid to pull off the tie and start unravelling it. It takes a little while, owing to the fact that his hair knots so easily; but he's careful and persistent, and manages to shake out the last of it without having to reach back.

[Then he slides into the water to dunk his head, floating there in blissful watery silence for a while before surfacing and shaking water off his face.]

Okay; ready.