Miska

Miska was a plant found growing on the Lamatath Plain. Its root bulb was used by the Kindaru to make miska milk, a steaming milky substance with a sweet pungent scent that smelled vaguely alcoholic and had an appallingly foul taste. The Kindaru believed their food had memory, so they cooked everything in miska milk to remove the bitter taste of death. Miska milk was not in itself meant to be consumed. Its taste made the eyes tear and the throat burn before bringing on a blissful numbness. Too much milk could send the mind travelling so far it could not return or burn holes in the stomach leading to an agonising death. The milk was also used to cook and soften the meat of the region's tunneling turtles, drawing out the natural poison in their flesh so they could be eaten.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.231-232
==In Toll the Hounds==
Traveller was invited to a meal at the Kindaru camp and given turtle meat soaked in miska milk. It was only after he had consumed some of the foul miska milk that he took to be mare's milk, that he was warned of its properties. That night he dreamt he was a turtle, tunneling contentedly through the hard-packed, stony earth, pleased by the warmth and safety of his dark surroundings.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.231-233
==Notes and references==
Category:Flora
Category:Substances