Fragile Layers - for ilysia_039

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Title: Fragile Layers
Author: ceitfianna
Recipient: ilysia_039
Rating: G
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: Set during Horse and his Boy
Summary: Hayat lives in Tashbaan and wonders about the Northerners that she is cooking for. When one of them comes to visit her, her views on her neighbors to the North change.
Author’s Notes: I read the prompt and thought of conversations that happen in kitchens and this was the story that resulted from it. The food in this fic was inspired by my own experience with Moroccan cooking, it made me hungry as I wrote it. The first proverb is Berber and the second is Arabic. The heavy use of proverbs in The Horse and his Boy sent me out looking for appropriate ones.


( Fragile Layers )

Original Prompt that we sent you: What I want: Let's talk about Calormen! Alternatively: one or more of the Pevensies attempts to explain Narnian theology to an outsider. Predictably, it doesn't go overly well. Feel free to be as creative as you like with the prompt.
Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever: "No mortal power may stay her spinning wheel./The nations rise and fall by her decree./None may foresee where she will set her heel:/she passes, and things pass." -Dante's Inferno Canto VII 82-85; politics; religion.