Acrid Taste

In the Kingdom of Veritas, a lie tastes like rot. And the truth tastes like blood.

Tamsin is the King's "Lexicon." Born with a weaponized form of synesthesia, she doesn't just hear words; she tastes the intent behind them. In a court suffocated by "Sweet-Tongue"-politically curated lies that taste of cloying sugar-she is the ultimate lie detector. A single falsehood on a traitor's tongue fills her mouth with the flavor of decaying meat. She is valuable, feared, and enslaved by her own senses...