Chapter 43
Early 1062 (454 from Hegira) Messina
How many people had tried to grasp that sky that Nadira wore in his eyes? Ibn al-Ḥawwās, ibn al-Thumna, Bashir and finally Arold Short leg; everyone had tried to penetrate beyond that intense blue in an attempt to see its secret.
Who has ever managed to grab the sky? Nobody, if not dead. Perhaps this was precisely what Nadira's eyes represented, the supreme good that is acquired only with death. However, men hate death, so that sky became cursed; like Perseus with Medusa, one never had to meet that gaze if one did not want to incur the most unfavorable fate that a man could have.
Ali the Demagogue, the first to wish for her, no longer believed he could fight against Mohammed, and consequently abandoned the fight for Nadira. Therefore, rem
