[Maplestone City]
[Montaigne Mansion]
Winters swept through the breakfast like a storm—remaining bread, leftover pickles, and a large bowl of thick soup made with fresh seasonal vegetables and remaining cured meat.
Having breakfast was a habit Winters developed while in school.
Poor people don't eat breakfast; they have only two meals a day and usually go out to work hungry.
The wealthy can fill their empty stomachs after waking up, but they usually rise late and have their first meal at nine or ten o'clock.
Only cadets of a military academy, who have to get up early in the morning for classes, must eat breakfast at dawn.
Winters's beast-like eating speed is a mark left on him by the military school. He never lets food stay in his mouth for long, swallowing it after only a quick chew.
Anna worried about this a lot and even set a dining rule for him: "Chew each mouthful at least twenty times."
