"Exactly. The more we can engage sense memory, the more we can help anchor people when they're feeling..." She made a vague gesture, unsure of the right word for it. Not homesick, although that certainly was an important element to all of this. But she was thinking about Trench now. And about how the corruption sometimes seized old of people and made them...

Made them...

Well, almost out of their minds, it seemed.

If it were to happen to her, she tried to think of what might snap her out of it. And for some reason, the first thing she thought of was the scent of her favorite plants from Valeria. Smell was connected to memory. And memory made someone a person, instead of a beast.

Ariadne shook her head. "When they're feeling overwhelmed."