Faces of the yard

An Arabic novel of 350 pages, 14x21 cm. The questions and answers kept coming until I fell asleep. I got up and took my way early towards the Bab Al-Awali. When I stood in front of the Personal Status Department door, there was a group of people inside and outside. I stood in front of the employee of the department, who was busy with a pile of papers. He raised his head, looked at me with a state between weakness and activity. At that moment, I extended my hand into my pocket, and I stabbed him several times... in his head, his chest, and on his hand, which was on a pile of papers. He did not resist, perhaps stunned by the surprise: but he started to stumble in place until he collapsed, and the astonishment was evident on his face, as well as on the faces and movements of the visitors, without any of them moving. They were paralyzed by the surprise!