If you love, love the moon. If you steal, steal a camel.
-A Dictionary of Arabic and Islamic Proverbs, Paul Lunde
Early evenings with the moon setting as we began our late night marches I wished that Billa Ali al-Grayn were still ahead in the shadows, for if he could steal a camel from under our nose surely he could steal the moon from the low western sky and put it back up high to light our way. Stars did that too but by even the thinnest crescent moon you could read a book or keep a diary.