A Company Of Heroes Book One: The Stonecutter - Plot & Excerpts
She can’t distinguish words at first, but the tones are friendly, muted and warm, which is something, anyway. She doesn’t open her eyes immediately. She is still too aware of her last remembered sensations: the suffocating weight of the bear, the moistness of its sweetly rancid breath on her face, the black claws glistening with her own blood. She fears that perhaps she is in some shock-induced dream, that the first sight upon opening her eyes would be the glinting button-eyes of the huge animal. And she is afraid she would see what it is eating.The smells are all wrong, though. A fragrant combination of wood smoke, pipe tobacco, bread, wool, pine tar, and, Musrum be blessed!, the heady odor of rich food. Her nostrils are successfully trying to convince her that some sort of meat is cooking nearby. As a mental exercise, she tries sorting out the smells: meat and onions predominate, but there is also the earthiness of potatoes, the sweetness of carrots, licoricey fennel, the punctuation of peppers and other spices.
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