He’s leaving, leaving on a midnight train…to that great Sahara in the Sky.
-Gladys Knight, Coming 2 America
After Gladys went back to Georgia, and after his life on the Darb, after his countless camels to Cairo, KhairAllah left Ramsees Station on his last train back to Kordofan, to Dar al-Kababish, the Abode of Sheepkeepers. He now lives in Dar al-Salaam, the Abode of Peace, on the outskirts of Omdurman, Mother of the Abode of Peace, getting up in years, waiting for his last ‘Arba’īn, his last Forty Days, to eat aseeda and sleep rough in that great Sahara in the Sky.