Summary

Chapter 26 begins with an online message from Zuhal about her relationship with Mustafa, comparing herself to an addict looking for drugs, and reveals she has only slept with three men in her life. She goes on to tell the narrator that the most important feeling between a man and a woman is lust, as it is capable of sweeping away everything else. The narrator feels some shame at influencing her so profoundly, but decides to never tell anyone about it.

Chapter 27 begins after the deluge of rain stops. The narrator goes to the coffee shop across from the cradle maker and begins a conversation with the old man about the nature of the unseen and the treasure on the hill. The old man doubts it exists, but believes people are fighting over the power it brings and not the treasure itself. The narrator...