“the woman’s baths” is full of sensory details. give two examples of sensory description from this section of the story: i was fascinated by what i saw around me. in particular my attention was drawn to the spacious hall called al-barani. in the center of it was a gushing fountain. around the hall were narrow benches on which were spread brightly colored rugs where the bathers laid their things. the walls were decorated with mirrors, yellowed and spotted with age, and panels on which were inscribed various maxims. one of them i read, "cleanliness is part of faith." as we advanced a little way the howling of a small child drowned the hubbub of the hall. its mother had pout it on her lap, twisting one of its legs around her and proceeding to scrub its face with and pour hot water over it until its skin was scarlet red.

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.