Breakfast

You wake up to a knocking on the door. You open up, and see Sara waiting for you, blank as you've always seen her. "We're having breakfast now if you wish to join us, your grace." "Oh, of course." you say and hasten to get ready. Sara walks away without a word, barely even making a sound with her footsteps.

Now ready, you walk over to the dining area. The small size of the convent makes it hard to miss, you just follow the noise of activity. Inside you see much of your party as well as about a dozen nuns seated at a large rectangular table. Sara sits at one end, while the other is empty. You presume correctly that it has been reserved for yourself and take the seat. The nuns are mostly eating bread and water quietly, while your traveling companions have brought out a variety of foodstuffs from your supplies to the table. On your left side, a shock of orange-red hair catches your attention. You see it is the same face from last night, the ginger nun. When you first look it seemed like her eyes were looking askance at you in a furtive way, but focused on her food when you looked at her face. Interesting. You decide to start this off on a more positive note. You see that like the others she is only eating a small portion of bread. You pick up a ripe pear you bought as part of a bushel when restocking and hold it out to her. "Would you like something a little sweeter, sister...?" She turns her body to look at you timidly. You see she is a rather thin girl with a pale complexion. Her oval face looks very delicate, which is exaggerated by her thinness. It has many reddish freckles from one cheek across her nose to the other. "Sister Cecily is my name, kind lord. I'm very sorry, but I have taken a vow of poverty, and even a small luxury such as that would violate it." That seems a bit **** to you. You decide to try again. "Is it really such a great thing? Perhaps your pride causes you to wish to suffer in order to seem holier?" She averts her eyes at your comment, then looks over at Sara. Sara has an eyebrow raised, looking at the two of you. It's the most emotion you've seen her express. Cecily is looking somewhat distressed, and you don't want to hurt the girl nor get her in trouble with her superior. "My apologies. I won't bring it up any more." Cecily looks relieved as she goes back to eating her bread. The breakfast continues as normal despite the awkward interruption. Still, you can't help but catch glances from Cecily and Sara throughout.