Chapter -5, Missing Communications, page 267
Surface Date: March 7, 2005
To: Ghaelen D’Lareh
From: Gr’noreth Solaken
Ghaelen,
We’d like to nominate your latest fragrance blend, “Nee Lehnah,” for a Creative Alchemy Award from the Revnekan Institute of the Healing Arts. If you are interested in this award, there are a few items we need from you by SD March 13 at 5pm.
- A sample of the fragrance oil
- A description of the fragrance, what flora in an age or ages inspired the creative process, and anything about the contents you are willing to explain.
- Testimonies from three to five people about the positive or negative effects of the fragrance (preferably positive). These do need to be signed by the author.
My apologies for the delay in notification; the time got away from me and I thought you were still on the surface. Please respond with your decision.
Best of luck,
GS
I know I should not be frustrated. This could be a great honor. He invited me to the institute and introduced me to all of those great people. This could be a way to spend more time there…. Maybe they would allow me to see the gardens. But by tomorrow? I’ll never get all of those materials together by tomorrow!
This is a test. Of course it is. The lesson I attended on patience and peace. I know there are always tests.
But by tomorrow? It can’t be done! How am I going to find five people to test and comment on the fragrance? They are scattered around the ages and on the surface. Man, I’m sunk on this one.
It will be such a loss for the blend to lose this potential. I have to try.
Doesn’t he understand it takes time?