The Air is Full of Spices

For AdelaideArcher


There was chaos and there was ugliness. Men were reduced to nothing but their outer bodies, and there was hardly any glory to be found. Brandon still struggled with the concept of being praised for entering the army – it was a path, and he chose it.

But it gifted him with some small graces: travel, discovery. A land of heat and scents. Things that he had only read about, and now can count as things he has seen. When the young Dashwood girl asked, he dismissed the simple, effortless explanation: 'hot'. He smiled and gave her a mysterious truth instead.