Summary

The final section is titled “The Fourth and Fifth Days.” Chapter 24 is set in 2004. Akhmed forgets to pick up the letter for Havaa. Havaa is elated when he arrives at the hospital. They don't talk about the fact that he might be arrested at any point, just as Dokka was, but they both know it's true.

Akhmed gives Sonja a book titled “Hadji Murad.” They talked about the book in the past and Sonja immediately flips to the back page. She says she never reads a book unless she knows it has an ending she'll like. She says the character of this book gets decapitated at the end, so she won't read it.

Akhmed, Havaa, and Deshi go to the weekly “aid distribution” so Sonja is at the hospital alone when a man arrives with a “tailpipe lodged in his chest.” Sonja can't...