Fiction: A plot is hatched to kill Mat’s wife and their baby. However, he is accused of the murders

Long after that incident, he – Mat Dawuk, I mean – told me himself that he only regained consciousness three days after the death of his wife, was only able to move his body on the fifth day, and struggled with great effort to bend the prison bars in the early morning two days after that. He pretended to faint and then walked out of the police department office, which had been left empty and unattended as the Ashar call to prayer rang out.

It was possible that the police had purposefully vacated their post and were letting him go so they could casually shoot him in the back, saying he had been trying to escape. Someone seeking revenge, a mob or maybe the entire village might have attacked him as soon as they saw him walking down the main road. It’s not that he didn’t think of these things, but they didn’t worry him at all. He should have been dead, so it was nothing for him to face death once more. The most important thing was to know where Inayatun and his child, still in her womb, were buried. So, as long as he was permitted to live, he...

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