Ashfin kills the ghouls that are attacking her and she falls unconscious. As she is returning with the rug, she gets overwhelmed by ghouls who rip into her throat and shoulder. The djinn asks her to find a rug, and she manages to do so. Nahri is shocked, but there are other concerns – they have to escape the graveyard. As Nahri is defending herself from the ghouls, the djinn shoots Baseema with his bow. Baseema calls the djinn Ashfin, and he refers to her as Ifrit. Baseema appears and tries to talk Nahri into coming to her. They are attacked by ghouls that are rising from the graves surrounding them. He questions her, to her further confusion, about managing to summon him, her family, and her abilities. He eventually finds her and is surprised that she is human and knows Divasti, the language that Nahri thought only she knows. He requests to speak with the one who summoned him while Nahri hides. As they talk, with Nahri pinned by Baseema, a djinn appears. It’s obvious that something is not right with the girl.īaseema attacks Nahri, spouting something that Nahri can’t really understand. After some time, she notices that she’s being followed, and it’s none other than Baseema. Nahri knew that following El Arafa’s border would take her to more familiar neighborhoods of Cairo. She stumbles upon El Arafa, a huge graveyard, and decides to cross through it toward her house. As she finally goes home, she realizes that she got lost. Instead of returning home, Nahri visits a coffee shop where she stays for hours, thinking. As the ritual ends and she counts her earnings, Nahri has an uneasy feeling about what just happened. She hears a voice coming from Baseema, who is clearly not speaking. While ‘performing’ the ritual on a young girl called Baseema, something weird happens when Nahri translates the ritual songs into her own language (which she’s the only one using, as far as she knows). After spying at several of these, Nahri started doing her own, posing as a kodia, the woman that leads a zar. Zars are southern rituals of making peace with a djinn that has possessed a person. As she leaves to perform a zar, he warns her about messing with djinn and demons. He tries to advise her to settle down and find a less dangerous profession, and we see that she cares about her. Nahri visits Yaqub’s shop a while later, and they talk about their visitors. The ploy is to have the nobleman leave so that she could rob him of some of his possessions that he won’t notice missing. As Arslan is exiting, he accuses and threatens Nahri, but does nothing more than spit at her legs. She sends them to Yaqub’s apothecary to buy the necessary ingredients with which to perform the ‘cleansing’. By the end of their meeting, she has convinced the older brother to take his family, servants, and animals for a weeklong stay at an oasis, while her ‘magic’ cleanses his home. Nahri is very clever and manipulative, but at the end of the day, she’s a street trickster. And he is right, she is nothing but a poser. Arslan, his brother, is the younger man who doesn’t believe in Nahri’s witchcraft. Cemal, her client, is an older, superstitious man, who believes something is wrong with him. We meet Nahri as she meets with two Turkish nobles at dawn. Figured I'd share since they might be useful. I do these because I tend to forget the books I read quite fast, so keeping notes and summaries was one of my New Year's resolutions. Here's my summary for the first 7 chapters.
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