The room resembled a gymnasium in its emptiness as well as its height. In one corner of the room stood Nika, completely naked and unarmed. She had not...yet recognized them and her arms were outstretched while her knees were bent as if she was getting ready to fight them.When she did recognize them, her facial expression changed from one of half anger and half fear to one of joy as well as surprise. She immediately rushed toward them with tears in her eyes. It took the three of them a couple of. Now, fifteen years later, both of us finally tied the knot and promised to live out the rest of our lives together.Last night, both of us returned to our newly bought home after a hectic day of celebrations and ceremonies. I had planned for a crazy, hot night of sex earlier in the day but come night time, both my wife and I were so worn out that we had fallen asleep right after packing for today's activities.Pushing back the rising sense of disappointment inside me for not getting to fuck my. There is a bitterly cold breeze which tells me I am close to being outside. I can still hear that strange music. I know I have heard it somewhere before. I can smell that odour of iron in the air again. I just want to be home. I come up to what seems to be a child’s bedroom. I stand up wondering how can I not be outside by now?There isn’t much light around me, but I can see blue and yellow wallpaper on the walls, a rusty white crib, an open chest surrounded with old used up toys, a green door. This was done to achieve self-sufficiency, but it relied heavily on desalinated water, foreign labour and imported fertilizer, so eventually the government decided that it was all a bit of a waste, even by Saudi standards.But this simple, tribal lifestyle was still the case sixty, seventy years ago. Riyadh was a walled city above an aquifer long since depleted. People lived in tents, drank camel milk and stank, which explains their ingrained proclivity for liberally applying perfume in the.