Cavern Scents Journey

My conversation with Ruby about the letter from Dolly: http://cavernscents.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-friends-are-for.html No sense in repeating myself. I’ve decided to leave for the White Mountains tomorrow.  I hope it is time well spent.

I stared at the letter, read it again, and again.  My aunt Dolly had lost her mind for sure this time.   What could she possibly mean? What people?  What am I writing?  I’m not writing about anyone…  unless the dead women I study are alive again and talking back — which they do in [...]

The first time I noticed the fragrances was in the newest age the DRC had opened.  It rose up from the ground immediately after the rain.  I thought at first it was the puffer plants; or rather, I thought it was the spores the puffing plants were ejecting.  But after checking, I discovered those had [...]

(August, 1992) “Hello again, Ghaelen.  I’m glad to see you.  Did you manage to find the testing center?  I did try very hard to meet you when you arrived, but I was delayed by a patient with a very ill newborn.” I looked at the thin woman in front of me; saw the shadows from [...]

February 8, 2010 Is it really true?  I have to go find out. Rats, my KI isn’t working now.   That’s odd.  It worked a couple months ago…  Hmmm, maybe that earthquake shook a relay and the frequency shifted slightly.  We’ll see whether a new one fixes the issue. Yes it does!  Hey, and there are [...]

I should not have taken the box.  That really gave it away.  Removing some of the material from the Little Box may have certainly made someone suspicious, but that could have been a fluke, to them at least.   A wander — no.  I keep coming back to the fact that a wanderer would have taken [...]

It is interesting how a simple fragrance remains a memory.  Not a word, not an image — I have often wondered what it is in our brain/body/psyche that actually remembers smells. Things had gotten so busy I nearly forgot the brief moment of wonder at Devokan last summer.  I’m still not sure it happened, but [...]

Chink……  chink……  chink…… The quiet tink of glass rod on glass rim penetrated the drawn out wind-like sound I heard as I breathed in. Chink……. Leaning forward I inhaled the new combination of scents.  Ooof…  too much pine. “Rats.” Well, let it cook.  Smell it again in a few hours.  I thought about the painting [...]

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 [...]

I really should say that I decided to write down the story when I found the Big Box, not when I discovered the Little Box had disappeared. After all, had I not found the Big Box I wouldn’t have known about the Little Box at all.  Its subsequent disappearance would not have made a difference [...]