Sparrow Alone

Mala walked to the far edge of Bethphage... then end of the village that lay farthest from Jerusalem. As she had done a number of times through the years, she left the basket and its contents for the Nameless One. He was Bethphage's only beggar: a dark, large but physically twisted man. he darted from inside, convulsively seized upon the basket, and dragged into his low hovel.