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Shukri studied the boy who was studying him with wide eyes."You're Nadia's little brother, aren't you?" Shukri blew out a puff of smoke into his face.The boy barely flinched. "Not so little.""How old are you?""Old enough." "Hmph. And what do you want?""The truth." He folded his arms, staring up at Shukri hungrily."About?" Shukri turned his back to the boy, running his finger against the dusty titles on the shelves behind him."My abah. You knew him, didn't you?"Shukri's finger stopped on...