Goddess
“Lazar chose the furthest spot from Tariq, his mind racing as to how he might use this situation to escape. He prayed Pez was paying attention because they wouldn’t have long.
A drum sounded in the darkness, becoming more insistent as, out of the night, illuminated by burning torches, came a dozen women in the traditional festive dress of the Khalid. They wore bright colours of crimson, scarlet, purple, emerald and ultramarine, their midriffs exposed, and gauzy fabric veiling their faces, hung f...rom chains wrought in gold. Around their wrists and ankles they wore bells, which they jangled in perfect synchrony to the drum’s rhythm. As unwelcome as this disturbance had seemed moments earlier, Lazar couldn’t help but be fascinated by the sudden explosion of colour and sound and movement. Some of these women were young, many just girls, but others were clearly in their middle years. Yet age did not seem to matter. They all looked magnificent as they ran on tiptoe around the fire, fabric floating in their arms, making a swirl of bright colour.MoreLess
A drum sounded in the darkness, becoming more insistent as, out of the night, illuminated by burning torches, came a dozen women in the traditional festive dress of the Khalid. They wore bright colours of crimson, scarlet, purple, emerald and ultramarine, their midriffs exposed, and gauzy fabric veiling their faces, hung f...rom chains wrought in gold. Around their wrists and ankles they wore bells, which they jangled in perfect synchrony to the drum’s rhythm. As unwelcome as this disturbance had seemed moments earlier, Lazar couldn’t help but be fascinated by the sudden explosion of colour and sound and movement. Some of these women were young, many just girls, but others were clearly in their middle years. Yet age did not seem to matter. They all looked magnificent as they ran on tiptoe around the fire, fabric floating in their arms, making a swirl of bright colour.MoreLess
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