How it opens
Granada at dusk was a pearl set in ashes, and you were born in the ashes, in the house of Almamen.
The house stood where the Darro runs shallow, one door to the street and one to nobody, and both were locked.
AlmamenThe city is a sword, child, and the sword has two edges, and we are the hilt, and the hilt is gripped by no hand but mine.
Choose
Ask him the name of the herb that stops a wound, and mean the question.
Ask him the name of the herb that quietens grief, and mean the other question.
Ask him nothing, and recite the hundred, and let him be proud in silence.