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Jay gave a slow nod “I guess you’re right Wow, Hess You keep giving hts into the culture I would have never co to know you is one of the best ways I’ about Damhoor today”
Hessuh’s lips twisted “You mean an une is viewed as a woman’s only reason for existence and where a wo? An obstetrician when e is considered a woman’s only viable ‘career’?”
“Yeah, all that Also unveiled when all the local woree or another How coht people in the right places can achieve” Hessuh sany ponytail “I personally owe being unveiled to Sheikh Malek He made a decree that women ork in the medical field can dress however they choose—but only a handful took hiirls enter medical school here when our only local female doctors had their education abroad, like I did, also thanks to the vision of another man—my father In the last six years the number of females in medical school has risen to alain As it alould
Hearing about him and his achievements, which was constant when everyone, even her GAO partners, had so new to relate about hiroped desperately for a change of subject “So, to continue my curiosity—what does Hessuhexpression on her face, as if she was daring Jay to ed “So that’s why you share everything with h “I knew you couldn’t resist it My nah don’t askwhen he named me Share of what, b’Ellahi? I always asked hi his brains, he ca answer I’m his share of life’s happiness”
“And you’re my share of this mission’s,” Jay teased “I wouldn’t replace you with the lion’s share”
Their banter was interrupted by their next patient, a wo pink and violet dress and blue dots tattooed all over her face
After careful examination they looked at each other and nodded This woman was there to check them out, no more As Jay punched in her data on the co them that electricity was trapped jinn whom God had enslaved in the wires to serve humans
As the woman left, Jay stared after her open-o back to Halhere your patients will make stock-market transactions fro for their CT session, then tell you you iah sessions The first is the so-called cureall by leeches and bloodletting and the second is the jinn-poweredain as that expression took over Jay’s face on just iruities “I should have htful”
“You’reme sound like a clueless tourist here!”
“Well …” Hessuh spluttered at Jay’s nation “Oh, you’re just a newco”
Jay poked her “That was ‘laughable’, wasn’t it?”
Hessuh giggled again Jay couldn’t remember when she’d made friends with another person more easily or quickly Except for Malek
Malek How shecaht, every hearbeat, every ih her nerves