Desert

I knew there was a caravan going to across the desert, so I went to the warehouse to see them. I met an Englishman there. He had been at the university for ten years, so he knew Esperanto, the world’s religions, and now he was trying to be an alchemist. At first he didn’t want to talk to me, but he changed his attitude after seeing Urim and Thummim. The warehouse boss told us that there was a caravan leaving for Al-Fayoum oasis, which is a part of Egypt. The Englishman also wanted to find the alchemist in Al-Fayoum, so we followed the caravan and left Tangier.

Almost two hundred people and four hundred animals gathered together, then our long journey started. The whole caravan was totally in silence in the desert, and I started to observe the animals and people, also the desert. There was one night the Englishman and I both were unable to sleep, so we went for a walk and he told me the story of the alchemist. The war between the tribes had already begun, we needed to be lucky enough to reach the oasis.