Chapter 58

The next day, Rima woke up early while Manar and Iman were asleep. She got up quietly and then went into the kitchen, but she did not find any food in the small refrigerator. She said:

“Where is the cheese and where is the bread? Why is there nothing in the refrigerator? And why is it disconnected from electricity?”

She turned around and searched for the pots on the stove and found them empty. The lights went out, the kitchen became dark, and the windows disappeared. Then Rima began to feel the buzzing sound resulting from the keys hitting the iron, as she had heard this sound in the past when she was inside the nursing home and that guard was spreading terror in them and threatening her with torture and death. Then everything disappeared and I felt very cold. She tried to hold her body with her hands, only to discover that she was naked, that she was sitting in that empty room, and that the director of the nursing home entered and flooded the floor with cold water and h