Chapter XXIII. A new dawn

Yes, it doesn’t matter who you were, what you are today…

What matters is what you will be like tomorrow.

-Who is this Hammam? Baibars! God only knows how many other names he uses!

How did he know about my relationship with Air Force Intelligence?!

What does my father have to do with what is happening?! And how could he know him?

It was a brief letter, but he sealed it with the magical words, ‘I convey to you the greetings of your father.’

If my father had anything to do with this stranger, it’s worth the risk.

“I kept asking Basel for years and years about him, to no avail. Whatever it was then”, Walid decided, he would not tell Basil about the letter, “let us see what Baibars wants.”

Indeed, your beginnings determine your fate, and Walid’s beginnings were neither as an agent or writer of reports for Air Force Intelligence nor was he established to be anything near to this.

His life is nothing but a passing thing, and the beginnings must blow him one day.

His father, his mother, the old woman, the mulberry tree, the branch, the cow, his aspirations and dreams of a new revolution against the dictatorial regime, all of them were the beginnings, and what Basel made him do today is only a stage of loss that he lived through, or it was a period that he was destined to live through, to be ready, for the new dawn.

Over the months that followed, secret communication between them became active, and with each message, the mystery increased. Baibars not only knows his relationship with the Air Force Intelligence, but also knows his movements, the names of his friends, and his relationships.

He even pointed out to him more than once about a place he had been to a day or two before!

It’s as if there’s a separate Air Force Intelligence Agency inside Syria, knowing everything big and little and keeping up with the smallest details.

One thing Baibars wanted from him was another meeting outside Syria.

He strongly urged him to meet, but not in Damascus this time.

You must travel, that is, if you want to know what is going on, and about your father…

Find an excuse to travel

to Istanbul, Turkey