Chapter 41If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart, but if they come from the tongue, they will not pass beyond the ears.
—“Shahāb ad-Dīn” Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardī, twelfth-century Persian philosopher and mystic
8:00 a.m. GMT+3, June 10, 2022
Hills overlooking Tigris River, southeast of Siirt, former Turkey, now Anatolian Kurdish State
Now it is Zara’s turn not to sleep well. She tossed and turned all last night worrying about Peri. Zara stands weary-eyed, staring down the road into her cave of refuge in smoldering self-doubt. Did she get careless again? Did the rapture of the voice cloud her judgment? Did she just get her last best friend Peri hurt, by rebel Jesuits of all people? But what bothers Zara the most is whether she got close in the wrong way to a man aga
