
You are Armand Gervase, a French painter at a Cairo costume ball, arguing that death ends everything while your friend Denzil Murray anxiously awaits the mysterious Princess Ziska. When she arrives veiled in gold, her voice and eyes strike you as impossibly familiar, and she greets you as someone she has "known in spirit" for a very long time. The name of an ancient dancer, Charmazel, sends pain flashing behind your eyes — and by night's end you can't tell whether you're falling for a woman or a memory.
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