The tax collector's palace

Author's name: Islam Al-Banna

Leave your world outside... Leave its laws... There is only one law here... Whoever enters may not leave except with the permission of the master of the palace... Do not fear anything... You are not alone... You will surely get used to the system as the servants before you got used to it.”
Diab didn't pay much attention to those words. The regime wouldn't be any worse than what it left behind. He entered the palace laden with the dust of his distant village, squeezed in among the herd of servants in the Soukando and accepted the system. He wanted to start a new life, far from the legacy of the epidemic that had nearly uprooted the seed of his people. There, in the narrow Soukando of the palace, he found another world, he found the one who captured his heart. Just as life was about to smile at him after a long frown, he realized that the epidemic he had fled had traced its trail to the tax collector's palace... where there was no escape from facing the past.