Have you ever watched a drama about a girl training to be the best chef? Her teacher gives her a list of impossible challenges, like finding 100 different plants, being able to distinguish what's the ingredients in a dish with just a taste, cutting carrots while having her eyes covered etc.
My life turns into this. I feel like I'm being trained to be a top chef. I have to try to distinguish the ingredients in a poison with just a smell, I have to go to different places with Lord Valentine to find different herbs and ingredients.
"A poison that makes people lose their sight?" I say out the answer after taking a sniff of the transparent liquid in front of me one last time.
"Permanently or temporarily?"
"Eh..." I take another sniff. If there is a hint of bitterness amid sourness, it's temporary. If there is a hint of bitterness amid tartness, it's permanent. Aren't they the same thing? I take another sniff.
