(urth) Breakfast with Apheta

[David Duffy]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Roy C. Lackey wrote:

> On the morning after Severian bedded Apheta, she brought him breakfast on a
> tray. It consisted of "... small cakes, a carafe of cool water, and cups of
> some steaming liquid that looked like milk and yet was not milk." (URTH, XX,
> 146) He ate one of the cakes and drank a cup of the milky fluid
>

Is it ambrosia?

David Duffy.