Escape Artists
Cast of Wonders => Episode Comments => Topic started by: danooli on March 21, 2019, 05:18:28 PM
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Cast of Wonders 353: Artemis Rising 5 – With Cardamom I’ll Bind Their Lips (http://www.castofwonders.org/2019/03/cast-of-wonders-353-artemis-rising-5-with-cardamom-ill-bind-their-lips/)
• Author: Beth Cato (http://www.castofwonders.org/people/beth-cato/)
• Narrator: Nika Harper (http://www.castofwonders.org/people/nika-harper/)
• Artemis Rising 5 Artist: Yuumei (http://www.castofwonders.org/people/yuumei/)
• Host: Amy Brennan (http://www.castofwonders.org/people/amy-brennan)
• Audio Producer: Jeremy Carter
• Cast of Wonders 353: With Cardamom I’ll Bind Their Lips was originally published in Uncanny Magazine (http://uncannymagazine.com/article/cardamom-ill-bind-lips/) in April 2017.
• Click here to listen to Episode 353 (https://archive.org/download/Wonders353/Wonders353.mp3)
In the spring after the war’s end, the soldiers’ spirits began to wander home, and Lady Magdalena bound their lips with cardamom so that they could not speak.
“These souls walked for months, their only thought to return home. You must remember, little of their personality remains at this point. They are solid enough to nudge furniture and not sink through the floor, but they’re not fully here.”
I watched as she mixed a pinch of fragrant cardamom with pale butter and a dribble of honey. Ground cardamom spice, strong as it was, could bridge the lands of the living and dead; butter acted as a binding agent; and honey recalled the sweetness of life.
Tags: Amy Brennan, animals, Artemis Rising 5, Beth Cato, Cast of Wonders, communication, death, ghosts, investigation, Jeremy Carter, KB Sluss, learning, Marguerite Kenner, mentor, Modern Fantasy, Nika Harper, respect, sealing, secret, spirits, Young Adult fiction
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Enjoyable story, and the cat was perfect! Nika killed with this narration, too!