Gibreel and Alleluia reunite in the snow after Alleluia has learned that Gibreel was listed among the passengers of the Bostan and believed he had died. His sudden return overturns her grief: she carries him from the snow to her flat, where the man she mourned becomes a living presence again. The reunion also forces her to face the love and uncertainty that his apparent death had left unresolved.

Discovery and reversal

Alleluia finds Gibreel unconscious in the snow after her oxygen-free ascent of Mount Everest. For a moment, she wonders whether he is another of the visual aberrations that had troubled her since she decided to climb without oxygen. Carrying him back to her flat convinces her otherwise: he is real, and his weight and exhaustion are not a vision. The practical effort of sheltering him brings back resentments she had tried to bury while believing him dead, but her feelings of attachment overcome them.

His return revises the meaning of the news she had received. She had felt relief and gratitude at learning that he was traveling across the world to surprise her and make a new life with her, alongside the hollow grief of discovering that she had been loved only as he seemed to be lost. She also recognized that his unannounced arrival assumed she would welcome him and have room for him. His survival does not erase that unease, but it gives her a living person rather than a presumed-dead lover to reckon with.

Shelter and renewed intimacy

Gibreel sleeps for nearly a week, waking only briefly for food and hygiene. His sleep is disturbed, and he mutters the names Jahilia, Al-Lat, and Hind. Concerned by his condition, Alleluia calls her mother, Alicja Cohen, who interprets him as possessed; Alleluia, more pragmatic than her mother, does not accept that explanation. The episode makes clear that the reunion is not an immediate return to ordinary life: Gibreel has come back physically, but his sleep and speech suggest an experience Alleluia cannot yet understand.

On the seventh day, he wakes fully and reaches for her. Their closeness resumes, and the familiarity between them feels natural to Alleluia despite the strange circumstances of his return. The scene shifts the reunion from caretaking to renewed mutual attachment, without resolving what happened to him or what his return will mean for their future.

Belief and reciprocal disclosure

Gibreel tells Alleluia that he fell from the sky and survived. She believes him, drawing on her father's faith in life's contradictory possibilities and on what climbing has taught her. Her acceptance also rests on a sense that the apparently impossible is not necessarily outside reality: she recalls reading that stars produce diamonds through the processes of combustion and considers this wonder no less extraordinary. The reunion thus becomes a test of whether she can receive Gibreel's account without reducing it to an illusion.

Alleluia answers his disclosure with one of her own. She tells him about the visions she experienced on Mount Everest, including angels and an ice-city, and adds that the visions had not been confined to the mountain. Their exchange establishes a form of recognition based not on explanation or proof, but on each trusting the other's account of experiences that exceed ordinary expectation.

Significance of the reunion

The scene reverses apparent loss without making the return simple. Alleluia's grief had contained both the knowledge that Gibreel intended to come back to her and the suspicion that his plan presumed too much; his unexpected appearance revives love and resentment together. Her decision to protect him and believe his survival marks a renewed bond, while her candid disclosure of her visions makes the reunion reciprocal rather than merely an act of rescue. In the snow, both return from experiences the other cannot fully verify, and their renewed intimacy begins with accepting that uncertainty.