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Chapter 6: The Emissary After his failure to kill Prince Ahmad in Attan, Abdel ibn Zaid left Nikhrash on the fastest horse available to him. All his comrades, the other rimahniya he’d brought with him, were now dead, receiving the reward of their service to their lord Rimahn. He alone survived to complete the commission given him by Shammara of Ravan: the assassination of Prince Ahmad. The prince had sailed westward in search of the fabled land of Atluri, and for the moment was beyond ibn Zaid’s reach—but that situation would change. For if the prince was not killed at sea—a fate from which ibn Zaid prayed he would be delivered—then he must return to the lands of Parsina, and particularly to Mount Denavan, home of the daevas themselves. This ibn Zaid had learned from the prophet Muhmad,