This belief in the power of the accused to use their invisible shapes or spectres to torture their victims had sealed the fates of those tried by the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
Brutal, corrupt warlords torture and murder at will, while the khamsin, the hot, dusty desert wind, blows hard, turning the sky yellow and filling the air with choking sand.
Those who could afford to live in more pleasant surroundings moved out, and the area became one where the vast majority people lived in extreme poverty, and suffered from appalling sanitary conditions.