Suicide Is a Terrible Sin, Blue and Rustem Summary

Ka meets his next guide, whose red cap is hard to discern as it has turned white with the falling snow. This boy tells Ka that he cannot tell anyone where he goes to meet Blue, who is called the Master by this boy. His instructions are not to be insolent or interrupt Blue while he is talking.

Ka rings the doorbell of an apartment and is immediately frisked by the man, who at first Ka thinks he is the man who shot the director, but realizes that he is not after careful scrutiny. Ka's first impression of Blue is that he is young, extremely handsome, with deep blue eyes, no beard and brown hair unlike his portrayal in the press as a gun slinging fundamentalist with prayer beads...