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We would sneak into her room to watch her sleep, her teeth next to her on the nightstand, a towel draped over her feet to protect them and the invisible creatures that come at night to take the feet of the sleepers and walk with them, leaving behind nightmares and disturbing dreams. We memorized the shape of the towel so we wouldn't touch it after Teti Atreia left for Susa. We also associated her sleep talking with her teeth being pulled out and her sleeping stretched out on her back, until all the descendants of the Greeks of Cyrene and Susa were influenced by the eternal dead with whom they shared the city half and half. But the dead don't snore, and Teti Atreia's snoring reached all the way to Rome. My brother Ayub used to tell us scary stories about Titi Atria's house and about the sea that had submerged part of the old town and would inevitably submerge my grandfather's house after Titi Atria had gone to her Lord. Perhaps he was waiting for her departure to do so, for the sea was not far away, but it would not expand enough to drown a woman drowning in loneliness

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