Chapter 23
February 1061 (year 453 from the Hegira, Month of Muharram), Catania
Amir was determined to grant Nadira's request, so on the same day he saddled his horse and left in the direction of Qasr Yanna.
The concerns raised by the girl about the risks arising from seeking an enemy in her territory were real, and not so much because Amir had infiltrated the realm of ibn al-Ḥawwās to fear something, but because at that moment Mohammed suspected anyone and especially of few allies left. Knowing the mood at the Qā'id court, Amir prudently did not want to inform any of his trusty ones and did not wish to be accompanied. Except that, having arrived a few miles away from the walls, he had the feeling that the two riders who traveled the same distance from a distance accelerated when he acc
