Chapter Eighteen
On February 16 Haroun went on duty in the evening, and his shift began with listening to and recording the foreign “voices” speaking in Uzbek. Following the evening reading of the Koran by the dim light of a lamp, Yosir and Umar had gone straight to bed. Yosir must have fallen asleep easily and slept soundly, for when Haroun shook him awake, he thought the night was already over and it was time for the pre-dawn prayer. But usually everyone was woken for that, and this time for some reason Haroun put his hand over Yosir’s mouth and gesticulated strangely. Yosir awoke as easily as he had fallen asleep, with a clear head. Haroun pointed outside and Yosir immediately realised that something had happened. He wrapped himself in his chapan, which he always spread on top of the s
