" It was exciting to be off on a journey she had looked forward to for months. Oddly, the billowing diesel fumes of the airport did not smell like suffocating effluence, it assumed a peculiar pungent scent that morning, like the beginning of a new adventure, if an adventure could exude a fragrance. "

― E.A. Bucchianeri , Brushstrokes of a Gadfly, (Gadfly Saga, #1)