Cavern Scents Journey

My Dear Friend, I write this hastily because I am gone again tomorrow.  I don’t know when I’ll return in the next two weeks.  I am well, yet unwell.  I have asked Yrs. Solaken to postpone my Guild  ceremony for several months.  He was dismayed, but looked at me curiously as though he had expected [...]

October 8, 2011, Devokan Trust Office, Touchstone House, Winterfell It was so nice to meet with Dot last week and talk about things. I was so surprised that both my employer and mentor separately asked me for research drafts and healers’ articles that I was concerned they were thinking about something other than publications. At [...]

“Here, dear, these you can look over.  Take them with you and then you can do whatever you want to with them.” “Hats?” “Aren’t they nice, dear?” “But…  I don’t wear hats.  And I already have hats like these two.”  They weren’t really my color. “Oh, now, now, take them anyway.  You’ll find a place [...]

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 Metallic Chest.  That really gave it away.  Removing some of the material from the bag may have apparently made someone suspicious, but that could have been an uncertainty for them…. unless… oh sure…  unless the material had been measured…..  crap. A wanderer? — no.  I keep coming back to [...]

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 [...]