The shape that the Creator of the Universe, the One, the Eternal Refuge has chosen to inhabit in order to communicate with Abdul Fattah uses its tiny teeth to pick up another piece of lettuce and carries it back to its cage while Abdul Fattah, a devoted Muslim ready to die in a conflagration of fire, bodies, and shrieking terror, continues his work on the explosive device that the piebald Dutch rabbit he used to call Freddie told him to build.

