Chapter 7
Winter 1060 (year 452 from the Hegira), Rabaḍ di Qasr Yanna
When Idris finished prostrating for the sunset ṣalāt he could realize that Apollonia, in contravention of the ban, embraced his brother. Without the girl noticing anything, he pulled her by the veil, uncovering her hair, and then, taking hold of her loose hair, dragged her backwards on the ground, while she was struggling with her legs. Idris had had enough of that presence that made an already unpleasant task annoying, and therefore, intending to give her a lesson once and for all decisive, he decided that he would have punished her using the rope in the way he had done the day before with Corrado. He started hitting her where she happened, mainly targeting the face. Meanwhile Apollonia tried to cover herself with her
