Chapter 11: The Reunion
The weeks that followed her marriage to Prince Haroun were trying ones for Princess Oma. In her father’s kingdom, there had been diversions galore: tutors to instruct her, musicians to play for her, her sisters and the other women of the harem to talk with, and a whole cadre of servants carefully cultivated over the years to fill her in on all the political machinations within the palace. Princess Oma was an intelligent woman with a restless spirit, and she could not be content relegated to enforced idleness.
Here in Ravan she felt isolated from all that interested her. There were no tutors, no sources of intellectual stimulation. When she asked for books, she received blank stares; she wasn’t sure whether Shammara had deliberately cut her off from any enlightenme
