Chapter 40
Early 1062 (454 from Hegira) Balarm
After learning that Nadira had long left the city, Corrado decided that he would stay a few more days to find a girl who was much more at heart than she who was the reason for the mission. If he hadn't objected to going to the old and glorious capital, even if he had had to give up the action and the spoils, it was because Balarm reminded him of Apollonia. Unlike Nadira's research, this time she had a precise track to follow, in fact she knew of that stone merchant who had taken her away. He did not have full certainty that the merchant was Balarm's, but so he had presented himself and so Michele had supposed. Corrado went to the New District and then to that of the Mosque, visiting the markets and artisans of the city. Here he could observe
