Summary

Chapters 13 and 14

The lights reveal a small room, the size of a bathroom with only a toilet of steel in one corner and a blue mat. They drag him in and out, with only the drone of the air conditioner in between. This is the third day straight that they’ve kept him lit up, and he wonders if he’ll ever sleep again. As time passes, he loses track of days, hours, all of it.

He tries to sleep, but the guards wake him over and over again. When they come for him, they take him to an interrogation room that is so cold that even the man in the suit is cold. Khalid can just make out the plank in the corner with an old cloth hung over it and the tap coming out of the wall. Khalid can’t stop...