The Diplomat's Son and The Boy in the Orchids' Garden
Chapter 19 is up!!!
Sorry for the unconstant updates but our lives have been complicated recently. Thank you as always to my friend and co-writer @imandras this wouldn't have been possible at all without her.
Alec left the airport building and inhaled deeply.
The air filled his lungs and it suddenly felt like coming home. The temperature was around 80 degrees as expected and he noticed that the air was smokier than New York and all the European cities he’d lived in in the last years. That was something he didn’t remember about the time he’d spent there.
How he had missed Indonesia!
The air alone tasted different.
He breathed in one more time, closing his eyes: he recognized all the smells he had come to know while strolling around with Magnus. Motorcycle exhaust, clove cigarettes, fried chicken, and sambal seasoning, and for a fleeting second he wished it would start to rain just so he could recognize the scent of rain pouring on all those smells and blending them into something unique.
He checked his watch and realized he had enough time to get to the bus stop at Terminal 3. As he walked he was glad he packed a small bag that fit in the overhead compartment. The queue of tourists waiting for their luggage was so long!
He had considered taking the Soekarno Hatta Line train four stops to Manggarai, changing and going two more stops to Stasiun Gondangida since that would have been faster but since he didn’t want to change too many trains he’d eventually opted for the bus ride.
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