Well, uh, good for Nick.

She takes out her binder and reviews the Greek alphabet, occasionally looking up to see how the game progresses.

Every time she looks up, Nick is glancing at her out of the corner of his eye.

Well that's sort of weird. 

She will practice her Greek alphabet and maybe stop looking up very much.

Eventually Serena puts down her book and says "it's time for bed, Keturah. "

Serena had very carefully not commanded Fred to do anything, and yet he starts putting away the Narnia Stratego!

At some point she's going to figure out whether she's supposed to be thinking of herself as an adult or not. That'll be good, because if she is an adult then she'll know to be upset about being ordered around like a six-year-old, and if she's not an adult then she'll know to be extra upset about the deliberately getting her pregnant and making her carry a random person's child. Alternatively, she might be able to sort herself as a prisoner of some kind of ideological war, it's possible that prisoners of war have to put up with both of those sorts of things.

She's not gonna figure it out tonight.

"Yes, ma'am."

In Serena Joy's defense, everyone always does what she says, adult or not. 

This doesn't really make it less creepy.

She brushes her teeth and puts her binder on her shelf and closes the door. She takes a few minutes to page through the KJV Bible on her shelf - a few to review the fruits of the spirit, and then a few to figure out what the book of Habakkuk even consists of.

O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. 

Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

She shuts the Bible. She turns off the lights.

She prays that her sister and her sister's children are safe and well and together, and that they will be led to wherever God wills them to be. She prays that people who are confused about the nature of God will be led to the truth. She prays for Serena Joy, and for Fred, and for Nick, and for the people who brought her here, and for the refugees in Canada, and for people who are ill and dying and don't yet know the truth, and for people who are hungry, and for people who are despairing or suicidal, and for her parents, and for the government, and for the Church.

She prays that the Lord will work a work. She lets him know that she has no idea what that even means. Maybe it says in Habakkuk 1:6.

She sleeps.

She is awoken before dawn.

"I prefer to fast before breakfast, but that is my personal spiritual discipline. I have made you eggs on toast."

She's pretty sure the first meal of the day is breakfast regardless of when you have it, but you know what, all right.

"Thank you. Is there a time I should set an alarm for tomorrow?"

"It's in your journal."

" - thank you, sorry, I'll try to finish reading it today."

Aaaaa.

"I'll leave you to your quiet time, then."

"Thank you, ma'am."

OK, clearly the first thing she needs to do is look at her daily chores, if there's a schedule then it's probably in that section, maybe?

It is!

There are, in fact, two daily chores lists, one for even days and one for odd days. It looks like Serena split the household chores in half and Keturah is alternating halves. 

There is also a helpful note that Keturah should "feel free to ask for help anytime."

OK. She can work with this. Is there a schedule that says what she's supposed to be doing at different times of the day, she feels like she's gonna need to know that in order to budget energy and mentally prepare herself and stuff.

There is indeed a schedule! From 2pm to 3pm every day is designated "Free Time".

Thaaat's not very much free time, but she's been on mission trips that were roughly that constrained, and she survived them. They were only a week long and they were hard and they drained her but she's gonna try not to think about that. If she gets desperate she can always lie awake for a couple hours at night or something.

She sets the room's alarm clock for tomorrow and checks how much quiet time she has left.

Serena allotted fifteen minutes for daily quiet time!

That's not very much but she has what she has. She scribbles a prayer in her journal in very very tiny letters, three lines to a line (she has no idea what her paper supply is going to look like). She cracks open the Bible and checks on Habakkuk where she left him, that seems like an appropriate quiet time activity.

For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

Fun times. This sure is gonna be a day, isn't it.

She shuts her Bible and heads downstairs.

Then she can help make bacon and eggs for breakfast!

She can do this! She hasn't made bacon and eggs before but she's sure she can figure it out given proper guidance.

As she cracks the eggs, Serena says, "the Coopers down the street also have a new Handmaid, Emily. Would you like to run errands with her this morning?"

"Sure, I'd love to." She has no idea what other sorts of people end up becoming handmaids and she's a little scared to find out, but that seems terribly hypocritical at this point.

"Do you think you will be able to grocery shop on your own with Emily, or should I accompany you?"