This night was special. For the first time, Saïd felt hatred towards the blond lady.

As he’s peeing, he thought about the factory where all the ladies were stuck: why are they stuck in the first place? and why are the old tourists keeping them there?

His uncle's gibberish wasn’t supposed to make any sense.

Saïd came back to his bed but wasn’t feeling sleepy anymore, he laid down, turned his head where his uncle Naser used to sleep and started wondering about the last time they were here together, a cringy memory started popping, he resisted at first, but it quickly took over his thoughts.

He remembered the time his uncle was weirdly moving his hand inside the blanket producing weird noises. Saïd spent years before understanding that his uncle was actually masturbating. He used to play games on his uncle’s phone and saw all those meaty women pictures he kept there. That's surely what he was thinking about when pleasing himself.

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Then he remembered what his uncle used to tell him when he was drunk

Your dad got you to fulfill his emotional needs, your friend’s parents also…

He never knew what that meant, and thought it didn't mean much.

His uncle’s weird ideas made people think of him as an absolute genius, or a complete degenerate.

Saïd always felt Nacer was trying to cause chaos in the household, his father hated him for that, which led to multiple fights where Nacer claimed his mental superiority over Saïd’s dad -Ali- who considered all his mumbeling just meaningless garbage to make himself look smarter.

Unlike those of his generation. Nacer went to city schools, and always felt he wasn’t supposed to end up in this village.

Few years after his arrival to the city, he willingly cut contact with his parents and other familiar individuals coming by.

His mother kept irrationally believing something happened to him, and refused to believe her own son doesn’t want to deal with her anymore.

18 years had passed since that, and Nacer was back to the village to find both his parents and his older brothers dead with only one sibling remaining, his sister who already was married with one son: Saïd.