Chapter 10: The Djinn Garden
Fazil bin Abou led his guests out of the barn that used to be a castle and into the garden they had visited the day before. Unlike the copper castle, the garden had not changed when its owner died, but remained as beautiful and idyllic as it had been yesterday.
“What is the nature of this garden?” Leila asked. “It is not as it appears to be.” Jafar could see the apprehensive look upon her face, and he remembered her earlier comments about the mystery and “wrongness” of this place that looked so tranquil.
“Indeed it isn’t,” bin Abou said. “To explain it fully, I must tell you more about the scarouche that kept me prisoner here.
“The scarouche would, of course, not answer any of my questions about it, lest I learn too much and find a way to destroy it. But in
