Asfar City of Mud 3 - Travel of Al-Ainouz Saud Al-Sanousi

He came out of the sea soaked, barefoot, and approached the men coming out of the "Sayer" mosque. He shook them with a mirror in his tired face and his large glassy eyes, and the youth hesitated, and the children hid behind the backs of men who held onto their pride, dignity, and composure despite the strange appearance. One of them was shy to show fear in front of the other. The stranger, panting, said he came to ask about his father. One of the men asked him with a trembling voice, "Who are you?" The stranger replied as he had throughout his life on Amseh Island: "I am Bu Daryah." And as if with this statement he poured a drop of honey into an ant’s nest. The men and boys scattered in all directions like sparks, saving themselves from the sea monster which, as Umm Hadab predicted, comes to kill his father and reclaim his tattered cloak.