True, she may be safe. But if Castro is arrested then they are all in danger. All the Jews of Jerusalem
Each morning, the printer bellows out the news of Jerusalem, two hands cupped around his mouth, so his voice echoes against the stone walls of the prison and penetrates each cell.
With the printer here, there’s no pretending that she’s in a different place, no chance of spiriting herself off to Toledo, to smell the ripening orange trees and the sunbaked streets. Merciless, he brings them back to the present, to the prison, to the guards and the empire.
She supposes he gleans his information from the guard who brings him bread and water. “The city is about to be upended,” he called out this morning. “Abraham Castro is to be arrested.”
Upended. The man thinks he is some kind of Yonah Hanavi, talking about Nineveh.
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