Chapter 40To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
—Saint Thomas Aquinas
5:45 a.m. GMT+3, June 9, 2022
Siirt, former Turkey, now Anatolian Kurdish State
In shock. Once again. He lies in Zara’s bed next to her. She has let him in. Another step in their growing intimacy. But that intimacy together only led to a vision of the ending of the world as they know it. They both gaze at each other in silence. Not the gaze of lovers, but the stare of the bewildered, assimilating what they envisioned together.
Peter slowly gets up, straightens out his nightclothes, and tries to sneak out of her room and back to his. But as he silently closes Zara’s door, Maryam comes around the corner on her way back from the prayer room. He freezes, but
