Beneath a Marble Sky Chapter 22

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.