"The air in the great hall did not smell of sacred incense. It smelled of old blood and flowers rotting in decay beneath a dense humidity that clung to the palate, sweet and repulsive as a miasma."
"The air in the great hall did not smell of sacred incense. It smelled of old blood and flowers rotting in decay beneath a dense humidity that clung to the palate, sweet and repulsive as a miasma."