Chapter 35If, for example, tomorrow an expedition of Martians came, and some of them came to us, here… Martians, right? Green, with that long nose and big ears, just like children paint them. And one says, ‘But I want to be baptized!’ What would happen?
—Pope Francis
8:00 p.m. GMT+3, May 22, 2022
Karahan Tepe, former Turkey, now Anatolian Kurdish State
She closes her eyes again, only to relive her failure. Failure as a daughter to her mother, who obviously wants her to start a family with this man. Failure to her sisters as her carelessness, her poor choice of a moment to let her guard down, her straying from her faith, led Rona and Diyar to a fate worse than death. She cried inside not for herself, but for the savagery they committed upon her sisters in front of her. Her heedlessness,
