NAVEH
Yes?
JULIA
She was murdered by assailants who probably came from the desert. She had a hard life and ended up being raped and murdered. I think she is from China. A distant province in China, by the desert.
NAVEH
Are you sure of what you are saying?
JULIA
Yes. Let’s see the second cup.
She takes the second cup and smears it. This time she is more prepared for what she discovers.
JULIA
It’s also someone from China. Someone who was wandering in the desert, on some commercial journey. They all got caught in a huge sandstorm and died.
She takes the third cup.
JULIA
And one that was killed in one of the battles. I’m not sure, but it was a battle that happened a long time ago. I think he was killed in a Mongol raid on an area in northern China.
Naveh pulls out small stickers from a drawer. He sticks one small sticker on each cup and writes a number on each of them, at the same time he writes in his diary what she says about each and every one of the cups.
NAVEH
So you’re saying they’re all in northern China?
JULIA
Yes, and they were all probably Jewish.