Chapter 18: The Raid
He always went out of himself to eat well, so even when Lisa sent him five messages to come to work an hour early, Ravi reached to the other side of the town to buy a shawarma.
It was not like he did not wake up early but he had been watching a video on social media and had been so influenced that he had gotten up around 5 a.m. to make the trending tangerine wine.
It looked so delicious that Ravi had no way of resisting it. He had always loved wine so he harvested some of his tangerines in the cold morning wind. It was colder than the forecast had predicted but Ravi braced the cold for his desire.
Once, he had been sent to Elteimum, the land of snow. It had been so cold there, so freaking cold but he had completed his task, compared to Eltenimum, the chill of Earth was so minuscule.
After feeling his basket with tangerine, he returned to the kitchen. He tied an apron around his waist and set out to work. He washed the tangerine and peeled them before he extracted the juice.
He took a sip and his eyes widened slightly, it was delicious. He poured a little into a container for him to drink later and began to dissolve the white sugar to create a simple syrup.
Making wine was easy, all you needed was time and patience. Ravi combined the tangerine juice and the simple syrup in his wine keg. He added rock sugar and some ginger slices before putting in the Wine yeast.
He kept it at the corner of the kitchen table, he would stir it daily and then weekly for the next six weeks before he buried it for six months. It will be ready in autumn, another thing to look forward to.
The thought of the wine made his lips twitch as he held the shawarma bag and a flask of rose milk tea in his left hand.