With the Jann’s help, Jafar al-Sharif set about preparing this strange spell listed in Kharouf’s grimoire. Cari flew through Astaburya until she found the shop of an ironsmith, where she took an unused brazier and left a dirham as payment. Then she went to the shop of a man who sold cooking implements, taking a brand new mortar and pestle and paying a handful of fals for it. Back in Jafar’s room they set the brazier up in the center and mixed into it the articles called for by the spell: the eagle feathers, cheetah claws, and orca teeth Cari had gotten, plus pepper, cinnamon, and myrrh from the king’s stores. After summoning up the feeling of power as he had the day before on the battlefield, Jafar mixed the items in the proper order and measured amounts, chanting incantations each step of
