Ale was the drink of rough soldiers, torn up by the battlefield with not much else to live for other than their drink at the end of the day.
Once it was cold outside, the soldiers would pretend to be festive by drinking spiced ale or mulled wine instead. Both drinks were heated and they pretended the coldness in their lives could be washed away by warmth inside.
When winter set in Montclair, Leonor had her first taste of mulled wine.
The first snow fell and Leonor was stuck to the windows all day as she watched the world she had been getting used to become blanketed in white. Her only experience with snow was in Magia, but Montclair winter was far more severe than she could have ever expected.
She thought it would be a light dusting to ease them into the season, but it was far from light.
