Sugar and Spice

by HMS Siren

"He is cracked black pepper, spicy and sharp. He has a pungent aroma that energizes the room and burns the tongue but in a mildly pleasing way. You can taste the pine and the nuttiness and sometimes something fruity when he sulks. It's out of routine but it's still entirely him." [Aesthetic poetry drabbles that came out of nowhere. Can't explain. It's good for the soul though.]

4. Cinnamon

A/N:

Hails: Izumo's has got to be favorite by far.

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Izumo is cinnamon, spicy and sweet. Like salt, you can't take all of her in raw because she'll leave you with an acrid taste and a charred throat and stinging eyes. She's best when mingling with everything else, especially sugar, a nearly nameless girl that no one remembers until you taste her again.

You can wear her down with any recipe, drinks and dishes and desserts and garnish. She's elegant but fiery, like a spiraling, dancing blaze. She pops like a firecracker with a short fuse. You are best left not challenging her but befriending her. She is prickly and hard to get used to but once you find what suits her best, she's a candied sweet unbeat by anything else.

Izumo is cinnamon.