“What are your powers?”
“My powers are beyond numbering, like the stars in the sky. I can fly through the air across all of Parsina faster than the eye can blink. I know the secret locations of every buried treasure, the hidden spot where the jewels of the earth lie waiting for discovery. I can build a sturdy castle from the sands of the desert and create life from the ashes of old fires. At a mere thought I can provide food, wealth, women, and any material comforts a human being could possibly desire.
“But far beyond my personal powers, I am king of all daevas. At my command the Shaitans bow and the Marids cower. My captains number ninety-nine, and each of them has nine hundred and ninety-nine lieutenants, and each of them commands an army of ninety-nine thousand demons, so that my host
