William Bouguereau The Virgin with Angels painting
George Stubbs Whistlejacket paintingCaravaggio The Raising of Lazarus painting
and after a while the water--carrier Khalid brandished his water-- skin, boasting. He could destroy the city, he carried the ultimate weapon. Water: it would cleanse Jahilia the filthy, wash it away, so that a new start could be made from the purified white sand. That was when the lion--men started chasing them, and after a long pursuit they were cornered, the booziness draining out of them on account of their fear, they were staring into the red masks of death is taking place. Knives hissing in the silence, at times the clash of metal against metal. Hamza recognizes the men under attack: Khalid, Salman, Bilal. A lion himself now, Hamza draws his sword, roars the silence into shreds, runs forward as fast as sixty--year--old legs will go. His friends' assailants are unrecognizable behind their masks.
It has been a night of masks. Walking the debauched Jahilian streets, his heart full of bile
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