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are preparing to depart, convoys of carts are already heading away across the desert; the carnival is over. She turns to him again.
"I am your equal," she repeats, "and also your opposite. I don't want you to become weak. You shouldn't have done what you did."
"But you will profit," Mahound replies bitterly. "There's no threat now to your temple revenues."
"You miss the point," she says softly, coming closer to him, bringing her face very close to his. "If you are for Allah, I am for Al-Lat. And she doesn't believe your God when he recognizes her. Her opposition to him is implacable, irrevocable, engulfing. The war between us cannot end in truce. And what a truce! Yours is a patronizing, condescending lord. Al-Lat hasn't the slightest wish to be his daughter. She is his equal, as I am yours. Ask BaaI