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Esther takes Black to Hasan’s home where Shekure and the children have gone after the second night of Black’s absence out of fear and her husband’s alleged return. Black amasses a mob to attack Hasan and the home, but Hasan is not present. Shekure willingly returns with Black to takes the family to a clandestine location. The coffeehouse storyteller recounts a time in his youth when he dresses like a woman.

As they continue to study illustration after illustration, Black begins to realize the Osman is becoming blind. Finally, Black identifies a signature on a painting of a bridal procession: a horse’s clipped nostrils. Osman confidently identifies the artist as Olive but asserts he cannot be the murderer, and pins the acts on Stork. Black later quits the Treasury and discovers his family is missing.

A quale storia avrei aggiunto significato e raffinatezza?

Master Osman feverishly pores over illustration after illustration, more concerned with the beauty and technique of the past masters than his actual task. After wrestling with the Book of Kings and coming to the realization Bizhad had not worked on the illustrations—he had been blinded by this point—Osman blinds himself with the same needle and describes his field of vision becoming awash with colors.

Black and Osman, unable to deduce anything from the three horse illustrations, enter the Sultan’s treasury to search for a clue. A painting of two dervishes recounts its creation.