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Night Fourteen

The Betrayal

Hamza ibn Saïd was not sleeping either. Since their arrival in Fez, he had difficulty sleeping — not from fear, but from excitement. It was this insomnia that saved his life — and perhaps the lives of all.

— They have my family. In Ceuta. My father, my mother, my two sisters. They said if I brought them the manuscript, they would free them.

— You are not a traitor. You are a son. There is a difference, said Ibn Rachid.

That night, Youssef understood something about Ibn Rachid he had not understood before: wisdom was not only in books. It was also in the way of looking at people — seeing what they truly were, not what they had done.

✦ Night Fifteen awaits you — The Night of Destiny ✦