Juno ~
“You don’t have to help me with this,” Ceres said to me and I gave her a small smile.
“It’s fine,” I said to her, flour dusted my fingers as I worked some dough into shape.
“Kneading bread is much better than wallowing in my room with nothing to do.” I pressed the dough harder and folded it over, “Besides… I’m used to this kind of work, it's far from being beneath me.”
“How’s your hand?” I asked her.
She glanced at her still bandaged wrist and I felt a pang of hurt that I was putting her through this.
I made a promise to myself to make it up to her one way or another in the future.
“It’s healing just fine,” she replied.
I knew the bite marks would not hurt her because of the venom.
The thought of that sparked something in my mind and heat rushed to my cheeks and I clea
