“Have you experienced violence? Personally?”
“No. I avoided it as much as I could.”
“Then it would be better if you left Cyprus again.”
His voice was hard.
“Why?”
“Because sooner or later you will experience it. When you least expect it. And it will be unbearable.” He was silent for a little, threw water on his face and continued, staring into the water as though hypnotized. “Like Antipas… He was a commercial traveler; when the war started he was in the Gulf. If his wife Aimilia had not been enclaved over in Kyrenia, only from newspapers and other people would he have learned that there had been a war in Cyprus… When he returned from his journey he settled in Larnaca and, through the Red Cross, managed to secure the release of his wife from the Turks. After ten months of anguish and s
