Where Are They Headed?

I wonder what lies ahead for this brother and sister on the back of a Cairo pick up truck. Clearly they will be seeing the congested, polluted Agouza Corniche stretching into the distance. Possibly they are envisaging a run about in their street before dinner and bed, abandoned on a mattress in front of an open window through which degrees centigrade and the call to prayer will enter freely. Definitely not their arrest when they are a little older for gathering in the street to peacefully protest an action of their president and their sentencing to between two and five years in prison for their actions. That is what has happened to 152 of their slightly older compatriots in the last few days after three batch trials in each of which 50 defence lawyers spoke for six hours in total before a single judge who took ten minutes to decide and impose the sentences.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe in their eyes and the T-shirt clenched in the boy's teeth, there is a foretelling of the future.