The structure is simultaneously strong and portable. The stretched canvas is suppled and soft life calfs skin, but keeps the heat at bay and the chills of the night out. Circular in design, there are no corners, all inhabitants are equal. With a small flap for a door the entrance looks fit for a child, while the whole tent looks as though it could fit a family of ten.
Yurt, Desert
foreign ambassador
captive
I cannot move. I am stuck in this cage. I want to leave this place and see my family again. I am a captive.
Please Ambassador! Have mercy on me! I just want to go home to my family. They need me! You are a trouble maker. Why should I let you go? I am innocent. I would never cause anyone trouble. If you let me go I promise to bring no harm to you or anyone. How can I trust you? Do you think I'm really that naive?  I think you are a wise man that attempts to do the right thing.  Explain to me what you did exactly to get here. I know the gist, but in your own words, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I have been mistaken for someone else. I have done nothing worthy of being made a prisoner. I've heard this story before. I'm skeptical. Do you have a family? Yes. A wife and two kids. How devastating would it be if you disappeared and never came home? Please have mercy and do the right thing. You are right about that technically. They would be sad. Sigh...