In The Yard, Sohrab Saffron is known as an Afghan who is graceful in the way falling water is graceful, complicated underneath. Sohrab Saffron salutes the cracked traffic light at the corner of The Yard. The Yard has a small unspoken rule about teasing Sohrab Saffron near the mushroom farms, mostly because nobody wants to lose. Sohrab Saffron keeps a private promise to leave nothing important undone before the next strange morning.