Chapter 9: The Jann
The Jann known only as Cari—for she was neither old enough nor experienced enough to have gained any other names—flew from her master’s tents to the walls of Ravan with great fear in her heart. Many were the stories and legends she’d heard about the power and the magic of the Holy City, and how magical beings were treated by the spells laid upon it centuries ago by the great wizard Ali Maimun. Even her people, the righteous Jann who worshiped Oromasd rather than Rimahn and tried to live their lives in good and ordered ways—even they avoided all contact with Ravan lest they be deemed too impure by the definitions of the spell and burned to ashes. Even though they did not age the way humans did and could live for many thousands of years, all djinni could die. The Jann, a
