Author’s Summary:
Princess Cassandra of Troy muses about apples.
Apples were a common fruit among the Greeks and the
Trojans. Both countries ate them. Cassandra could see how the red color in
apples was the same color as blood. Crisp and delicious did apples taste to her
in her mouth when she devoured them. She enjoyed eating apples alongside bread,
chunks of meat, and different other kinds of fruit to eat and fine wine to drink
at meals. To end up hearing the sound of the crunch of the apple she ate under
her teeth and feel the sweet stickiness of the apples on her fingers. To get the juice from the apple to run down
the sides of her mouth and her have to wipe the juice away with her hand. How
Cassandra loved apples.
