One of the Wonders
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After he learns the man's name is Nicolò, that he is not actually a Frank, that he was a priest before he took the Cross, he learns he is Genoese.
That he too grew up on the edge of the sea, almost due North from Yusuf.
And in that, Yusuf learns to understand him.
Because Nicolò is a quiet man, not given to boisterous conversation simply to fill silence. He speaks when he has cause. And his wit is as sharp and piercing as Yusuf's own sword. But he keeps his own counsel most of the time.
His eyes though. They are like the sea. And like any man who grew up near her, Yusuf can read the change of moods in the variety of colors found in those waters.
****Yusuf meditates on the way Nicoló's eyes change with his moods. And then learns some new colors and their meanings.
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- Part 1 of One of the Wonders
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The world Nicolò grew up in, if he must describe it, was grey. Oh, the sun shone enough in Genova. But it rained frequently as well. And like mainly cities in the lands once ruled by Rome, houses were built on top of shops, with more servants quarters or rooms for let on top of that, three or four floors high. When he ran those streets as a boy, without thinking of it, he could traverse the city from the harbor to the far city gates and never leave the shadows.
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The world that shaped Nicolò and the path that led him to a fateful meeting outside the gates of Jerusalem.
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- Part 2 of One of the Wonders
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Nicolò's arms wrap tight around himself when he sleeps. Yusuf notices.
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- Part 3 of One of the Wonders