Jafar al-Sharif came to the bottom of the page and tried to turn to the next, to read further about traveling to Varyu’s castle—but the page would not turn. These tantalizing few sentences were all the book would tell him about the path to the citadel of the king of the wind.
Worried, he talked the situation over with Cari before mentioning it to anyone else. She had heard some talk about the yazata Varyu, and part of the rumor was that he did indeed live in a castle floating high above the earth, but she had never been there or known anyone who had. Visiting a yazata was not something one did casually. Nor could she offer any suggestions for dealing with the Afrits of the air, her distant cousins; she admitted they terrified her almost as much as they did him.
As for the city of the ape
