THE LONG WAIT

Parrot and Lily entered the church, having agreed to not wait for the Knight Templars from the courtyard.

Coming back into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, they humbled themselves like pious Christians coming to pray. Someone who did not know them may mistake them for Syrian or Lebanese Arab Christians coming to pray as there was no physical difference between the Arab Christians and Muslims.

They spoke the same language, had the same accent, shared similar names, the cultures were almost the same, and they also lived close to each other while trading from the same markets. What distinguished them were the different styles of dressing.

The Arab Muslim man mostly wore long robes that came up to his ankles with a small skull cap while the Arab Christian man was not conservative in his dressing, most times they wore European shirts and trousers. 

"Where are they?" Parrot asked himself.