The initial passion was soon ground down by the bran scraps in the bread, and after that it was all about persistence.
But Winters held on. If soldiers could eat it, he saw no reason why he couldn't.
Gradually, he adapted to the true face of this world, learning to chew and swallow whole pieces of bran without spitting them out.
Still, he especially missed Berlion, the blacksmith with a special ability to make unappetizing ingredients taste delicious.
Whereas most people only had the ability to make unappetizing food even worse.
Winters couldn't help but consider, "Should there be a separate department set up just for preparing food?"
But then again, that would make the army's organization bloated.
The old marshal's military reform, a major part of it, was about subtracting from the army: eliminating attendants, getting rid of all unnecessary auxiliary soldiers, and lightening the burden on the baggage trains.
