Word Count → 330 :: Prompt #2: Right on the heels of the blueberry season, strawberries are ripe for picking. They're equally delicious, so head over to Bass River and try some. Otherwise, harvest some of the fruit for winter stores.
Willam picked the deep red berry from the greenery that it hung among. The fruit was placed between her lips and was bit into. The sweet juices caressed her tongue as she ate the fruit. She clearly wasn't a strict carnivore. How could she be when she had sampled fermented fruits previously? Of course that was done during rituals though. She didn't have that now. She had to keep up her beliefs by herself. She didn't have the ease to practice as she had before so she was slowly learning to make some allowances.
Châtiment had been left to wander as he would please since the stallion seemed to follow wherever Willam would go. She trusted the equine to keep himself safe and out of trouble so she focused upon the leather clad book on her lap as she partook of the fruit of the area. Her finger moved along the page as she read the Luperci transcribed scriptures. She wasn't blessed so she didn't dare to read the holy words allowed. Being alone meant she had to have her communion alone as well. Only the leaders had been allowed to read aloud and so she imagined their voices as she was reading the passages that were always read during communion.
Of course she had only meant to have a single berry but couldn't stop herself from plucking them from where they grew and placing them in her mouth. She supposed that she could justify it as having to consume more as these were in liquid form nor were they fermented. Though no doubt Willam would end up punishing herself later after she had completed her daily rituals. The only reason that she didn't go ahead and do it now was because she didn't want to end up distracting herself from her studies. If she did that then she would have to punish herself twice. But again that was likely to happen as she was putting off her deserved penance.
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