TE16 Turkish Delight

Jürek and Qan his work, shamans’ tents, and the Caspian Sea. He kept going and going about his obligation to stay for a call on its way from the ministry, and how he learned every part of the city. Instead of another smile, you talked fluently in his language:

“Loving a city begins with loving someonewho lives in it actually.”

He caressed your every single word. Hardly kept himself from kissing your face, and let you buy him a cup of coffee. You agreed onmeeting thereat thesame timenextday. And thedayafter…The night after that, you grabbed him by the arm and took him deep into the streets which he thought he had already discovered. He was shocked. He sawwhat happened beyond where the homeless slept. At some point he heard his language, learned about the harmony of the word he had never heard before. Met slaves with full lips, and those with nose rings too. He waited to find you in a dark room, his arms extended, naked. While you made love to one of the slaves at another corner, he buried himself in a body he assumed to be yours. She was as tall and big as you, but the darkness hid her better. Her skinwas pitch black, and didn’t shine like you. The nights of pleasure went by without you two uniting. Ministry sent out the permit and Noah’s ticket. He waited for you to come and say goodbye to him at the airport. And you did. But he was expecting more. He was ready to throw his life away to get back together with that body he thought was you in the city he hated. He had given up the Caspian, and slant-eyed children too. He had

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