How It All Goes Down
Allah's Desertion
- With a chapter title like "Allah's Desertion," we're gonna guess nothing good is about to happen.
- Jahanara goes to the Red Fort disguised as an old woman to visit her father.
- When she gets to her father's cell, Jahanara's dismayed to find that he's been overcome with illness again, and he's not doing well at all.
- Jahanara storms out of the room to berate her father's guards and figure out why a physician hasn't been in to see him, but one of the guards is Aurangzeb's spy. He recognizes Jahanara despite her efforts at concealment.
- Letting Dad get ill again was all a trap laid by Aurangzeb.
- Jahanara is flung back into the cell and imprisoned. Again.
- Jahanara keeps herself busy caring for her dying father.
- Late that night, Khondamir shows up to torment Jahanara. He beats her, threatens the lives of Isa and Arjumand, and then violently rapes her.
- Jahanara is completely desolate.