The adventures continue. Dalil realizes his vocation as a story teller, and also as a wanderer who collects stories before they vanish in the great destruction. He gains a worthy mate as he gains his vocation. Alimah the singer of songs and dancer studying in Egypt, meets a man of the far north at that school. Danger and violence pursue them both; they fl ee and have many adventures until he goes back to his home land. She stays and bears their child and mates with Kaliq, as she meant to do. Nahid, the jeweler, goes to the far mountains of Badakhshan for lapis, returns and fi nds that the Kin are leaving Mesopotamia for a remote mountain valley near the Great Green Sea. He, driven by his dreams, must go to Amarna where Th utmose made his great art. He does so and acquires the mysterious Rabiah as his mate. Fleeing Egypt, as so many have, they return to the Kin in their mountain valley in the hills of Lebanon.