How It All Goes Down
- The Golem, like Sookie Stackhouse, is bothered by the thoughts of everyone in New York.
- Passing a shop, she notices an ornate hat and touches the glass to get a better look.
- She doesn't know her own strength, though, and the glass shatters, sending the Golem running, faster than Louie Zamperini.
- The Golem is able to feel the hunger of a young, poor boy on the street. To help him, she takes a man's knish and gives it to the boy.
- Thus begins the great knish kerfuffle of 1899. A man in a black coat, who has been following her, steps in and pays for the knish to calm down the angry crowd.
- The man turns out to be Rabbi Avram Meyer. He could tell that the Golem is a Golem… and he wonders whether or not he should destroy her.
- Being able to read thoughts, the Golem knows that he's considering this, and she becomes wary of him.
- He explains that he's not going to, and she needs to learn how to judge people "by their actions, not their thoughts" (3.63).
- The Rabbi buys her some clothes and brings her home with him.
- Over in Little Syria, Arbeely and the Jinni are struggling to live and work together in such a small space.
- The Jinni doesn't sleep, and he's feeling claustrophobic all cramped up.
- He's also lamenting the loss of some his powers, like the ability to enter men's dreams.
- Way out in the Syrian Desert, the Jinni spies on a nearby Bedouin camp, especially the pretty young girl who lives there.