Storyteller: But at story time in the darkness of the evening, Halima sometimes let herself dream of her promised one, Atiyah, whose name meant “Gift of God” As the story of djinns and princes loosed her thoughts, Halima closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep…….
Yuki: Set in the desert of North Africa, near the modern day city of Fez, this is the story of two young Bedouin’s promised to wed each other at birth.
a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
He told me to go …to hunt lizards in the desert, to raid our enemy tribe the Shummari…and to stay away, at least until the moon has waxed and waned again, until his brother Saladeen has left our tents
Narrator L: Halima could see Atiyah now in the faint starlight that filtered through the blowing dust.
relatively long-bodied reptile with legs and a tapering tail
He told me to go …to hunt lizards in the desert, to raid our enemy tribe the Shummari…and to stay away, at least until the moon has waxed and waned again, until his brother Saladeen has left our tents
Narrator L: Halima could see Atiyah now in the faint starlight that filtered through the blowing dust.