It was this last piece slipped from Mariam's fingers, that tumbled to the wooden sections of flooring of the kolba and broke.
when Nana saw the bowl, her face becomes red and her upper lip shuddered, and her eyes, both the lethargic one and the great, settled on Mariam in a level, unblinking way. Nana looked so frantic that Mariam dreaded the jinn would enter her mom's body once more. In any case, the jinn didn't come, not that time. Rather, Nana got Mariam by the wrists, pulled her nearby, and, through gritted teeth, stated, "You are an ungainly little harami. This is my reward for all that I've persevered. A treasure breaking, cumbersome little harami."
