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Forty days and forty nights of mourning were declared and Our Ruler Shaan was buried in a lavish ceremony at the palace, which Master Makmood Rasheed was not invited to. News spread that High Priest Qhil had been injured, but no one was sure of the severity.
The serve-slave Zaq’s body, still with arrow embedded in its head, was burnt on the bit of dirt next to the latrines where Medi taught Jakira to fight.
A hush fell over the household and Jally Cook didn’t utter a word for the entire mourning period. On the day that Jally Cook broke her silence, forty-one days after the assassination of Our Ruler Shaan, Jakira had a visitor. He had first paid his respects to Master Rasheed, who had granted his request to see Jakira. She was told by Kalal to meet him in Big Bulai’s hut.
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