In Which Innocence is restored to Purity; the beauty of Innocence is immortalised on film and Purity and Innocence are exposed to the virtues of great wealth and proportion.
Dodie and Innocence were staying at different resorts on opposite sides of the mountain where they met, so despite Dodie's entreaties that they stay together and further what she said was potentially a beautiful relationship, Innocence returned to her hotel room to spend a few more uneventful days in the shadows of Les Petits Grands. She soon felt the need to return to the vegan commune in the hope that Purity would have returned. The thought of being with Purity once more filled Innocence with a warmth of expectation and desire.
When she returned, she carefully removed her clothes before coming within sight of the commune as she didn't wish to attract the approbation of the more fundamentalist commune members, although she was aware that the stares she got were no less pronounced than before. She felt nervous as she walked towards the main farmhouse, her penis shriveled from anxiety and aware that although her hair had grown to nearly a centimetre in length it was still very short in the eyes of her company. She was delighted though when Purity hurried up towards her smiling with her arms outstretched. In less than no time Purity's arms were around Innocence's naked body and they were kissing each other full and long.
"I'm so pleased you came here!" Purity exclaimed. She ran a hand down Innocence's stomach from the hollowed recess of her navel, over the flatness of her stomach and to her penis. "And you can see that you have nothing to fear of being naked here! Isn't it so much nicer?"
Innocence let her eyes drop down to her waist where the whiteness of her skin around the groin clashed determinedly against the opaqueness of Purity's skin. She was very conscious of the lack of sun she'd allowed against her lower body and how untanned she seemed in contrast to the others.
Innocence enjoyed her stay at the commune much more now that Purity was there to share it with her. She and Purity slept in the same room and the same bed in the commune. At first she was alarmed that she would have to share the bed with two others: a fat woman with an unfortunate propensity to fart and belch for which she never apologised nor gave any warning, and a very skinny man with a very thin penis and a wispy apology for a beard.
Innocence soon found out more about the sexual ethics of the commune which she found she was expected to participate in. This was principally that one would never have exclusive partners - this was considered a great vice leading to jealousy and selfishness. And also one had to be very open about one's sexual behaviour and pay no attention to anyone else's presence when making love. This meant that at any moment and at any time Innocence would stumble across two or more people making love with each other making no allowance for the nuisance the flailing of their limbs or their ecstatic gasps would make. Another feature of the sexual ethics was that there was apparently no concept of aesthetic choice in whom one made love to - and most certainly gender, race and age were not to be used as grounds of discrimination either.
As a result she often found Purity in the throes of lovemaking with the most unattractive people, and usually at some time in the night during, after or before Purity and she had made love together. She might be deep inside Purity, her bottom trembling with ecstasy, sweat clinging to her chest and Purity's vagina clasped tightly to her penis (Purity had quite a grip which she used to great erotic effect). Then Innocence would notice a hand grasp her testicles, or another tongue probe the entrance to her anus as her buttocks were gently parted, or see another penis appear in front of her face to be greedily gobbled by Purity. Sometimes there might be four or five people gathered around Purity and her participating in their activity with no prior invitation to do so.
Innocence knew that her attitudes towards sex were definitely not as liberated as they ought to be. She found some of the partners she'd make love to distinctly unattractive. They might be grossly obese with layers of fat around the top of their thighs and contrasting tiny hands or feet. They might be painfully thin with breasts more like fat sausages with hairy nipples at the end. There were penises that barely made any impression when erect - perhaps half an inch long and spurted uncontrollably and often into her face. There were those who made no effort to clean the shit from their bum after they'd excreted leaving unpleasant dried and sometimes moist brown faeces trailing between their cheeks. A common feature of members of the commune was their lack of physically attractiveness - Bouche and Purity were very prominent exceptions and this possibly explained their popularity as partners. This common feature was partly obscured by the curtains of hair over the face and shoulders, but not assisted in many cases by the untrimmed facial hair.
Innocence wasn't getting to enjoy the meals or the meetings any more. The meals were distinguishable only by the strength of the herbs and spices that were mixed in, sometimes so strong that however hungry she happened to be she was unable to digest the food at all. The meetings became, if anything, more tedious as she became more familiar with the topics of conversation. Frequently, in any case, she would find her attention diverted from the meeting as Purity or another person would start stimulating her penis or even suck it off in full view of everyone.
Purity was not one of those in the commune who spent most of her time working in the fields or cooking. She was one of those who went outside and worked in the community. She was almost openly dismissive of the majority of the commune who never ventured outside its grounds. "They might as well be anywhere! Why bother to live in Sauterelle?" she would say. Innocence was never completely sure what Purity did to earn money, although Purity never deliberately hid the source of it. It just seemed to differ every time. Sometimes she would earn money at a shop selling incense, tarot cards and joss-sticks. Sometimes at a market stall selling mystical books. Sometimes at record shops or factories or cleaning streets. "I'm very resourceful!" she admitted.
When she was at the commune, she spent most of her time with Innocence but often she didn't come back leaving Innocence feeling lonely and friendless. Only Bouche would give her any great attention when Purity wasn't around. Somehow, Innocence's very obvious difference could only be broached when she was already occupied with Purity. Bouche couldn't be around all the time of course, so often Innocence would help at the commune in peeling turnips, boiling carrots or tilling the soil with the wooden instruments that they made themselves and somehow preferred to those that could be bought at shops. Often she would sit in her room watching life go by through the window of her room. Sometimes she would be watching people making love, but usually she just watched mundane activities and the games of the animals.
Because of the commune's disapproval of clothes, she felt nervous about venturing into Sauterelle where her penis attracted so much attention and which she couldn't hide. When she did venture, she would try her best to obscure it with her hands or a bag, but it was very uncomfortable to keep up her guard in this way. Her hair was growing longer though. She no longer looked like a nun but her hair was too untidy to make her look at all stylish. She viewed herself in shop mirrors (there were no mirrors at the commune as such vanity was discouraged) and longed to be allowed to style the awkward mass of inch-long hair.
"What you need to do," Purity advised Innocence, "is to earn some more money and work in the community."
"Doing what?" asked Innocence. "Photography?"
