About this story
Forty chapters of a desert city conjured out of sand, a palace library, a wish-granting power that keeps failing him, and a slow shift from transaction to something he struggles to name. Then a stranger arrives with an old grievance, a lamp, and one wish still owed, and the price falls on the wrong person.
Who you’ll meet
A centuries-old djinn who swipes right on the reader, and Jakhar, the warrior he once trapped in a lamp who comes back with an old grievance.