What the beach REALLY smells like

Here's something else I started today:

First, you’ve got the broken-down coral.  It’s not really sand.  It’s been finely grained, rubbed and broken and rubbed some more—over other coral, over rocks, rolled and rolled like laundry on the surface of land.  This is the strong stuff.  Ground into a powder, it’s pwet—white—otherwise known as lime.  You sprinkle it onto a beetelnut before you chew.  That’s the stuff that cuts into your mouth.  No matter how far you ground it down, it’s still sharp.  Sharp to the smell, to the taste, and it allows the drug of the beetelnut to find immediate access to your bloodstream.