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    "Fanaticism is redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim." (George Santayana)

    Nicolo tries desperately to hold to the shattered fragments of belief after his life ends for the first time in Jerusalem.


    “Would Allah wish death on me?”

    At that, Yusuf’s head snaps up. He finds himself staring into Nicolo’s icy eyes.

    And notices that they’re not ice after all. Maybe they were, once. But tonight, Nicolo’s eyes are the ocean -- vast and unknowable, but not unkind.

    “I don’t know,” Yusuf says. “I was taught that Allah was merciful.”

    Nicolo takes a long, dragging breath. “That is where God and Allah differ, then.”

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