Location: Kaelport — the bakehouse on the cooper's row; the long shed · Hearthwell — the store; the kitchen
Date: 30 Emberwane 9943 AZI, Restday
Realm: Lower Realm
Under the barley, the loaf tasted of peas.
It was faint. Pease meal, ground fine and worked all the way through, so the crumb came out gray where it ought to have been brown and sat a little heavier on the tongue, and nobody who hadn't been raised on it would have known what they were tasting. Meifen had been raised on it. Every lean winter she could remember, her mother had put a loaf like this on the table at Loam Hollow without a word about it, and nobody at that table had ever called it anything but bread.
She stopped on the bakehouse step with the second mouthful still in her cheek.
