[His nose, as usual, was correct. It was far less cake-like and more sweetbread, wheat disguised with honey, raisins, and sesame. Only the shape and the powdered sugar on top served to pass it off as a cake.]
Yes. It's tradition.
[For the dead. For the church. She'd learned it from that woman's mother, who hauled her up each week and took her to the church, to sit in the pews and confess, (but she'd had no memories to confess from), to bow her head and (pretend to) pray.
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Yes. It's tradition.
[For the dead. For the church. She'd learned it from that woman's mother, who hauled her up each week and took her to the church, to sit in the pews and confess, (but she'd had no memories to confess from), to bow her head and (pretend to) pray.
She still remembered how to make it.]