How to Kill a Street Rat by Jennifer M. Eaton

Author:Jennifer M. Eaton [Eaton, Jennifer M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Galactic Razor
Published: 2019-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

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Holding his arms out to the side, Amir called out to the library. “Tell me everything I need to know to fight one of the jinn.”

Several scrolls whisked off the shelves and drifted into his hands. Most of the documentation was unclear. Some appeared to be written by madmen, maybe those cursed by the jinn themselves. One scroll chronicled a man who had unlimited wishes—until the lamp had been taken by another. However, the second man only got three wishes. The author speculated that if you found the lamp on your own, the jinni was your slave for all time, but if the jinni was taken from the master, the thief would only be granted three wishes.

The unknown was: had Aladdin found the jinni, or did he steal it from another? It was completely possible that Amir would be going up against cosmic power beyond recognition, limited only by the power of a street rat’s imagination.

Amir rubbed his temples. This challenge seemed impossible, but all the scrolls agreed that using the power of the jinn for your own gain invited a darkness into your soul. The few who had good intentions and tried to use the lamp for good, eventually lost themselves to the darkest parts of their own nature. So the longer Aladdin had the lamp, the more base he would become, and the more dangerous. Amir needed to work quickly.

Above all, he needed to get back into the palace. He called to the balcony in his former room and felt himself waver in the dark before rematerializing in the temple.

Interesting. Next, he tried the trees in the back of the garden, again to no effect. He tried Badra’s room and the spell held, wavered, pulled him in, and then spat him back. Amir flew through the air and slammed against the archway before falling to the hard ground.

“Blast it!” He punched the tiles at his feet. The boy had put some sort of psychic boundary around the palace, the strongest around Badra’s room. Clever.

Amir could appreciate someone who thought through every possible contingency, especially since Captain Nadir would have reported back that Amir had walked out into the desert, carrying a boy, and both of them were missing hands. Amir scowled, imagining Aladdin’s mirth over hearing of the apparent demise of his adversary.

He was soon in for a disagreeable surprise.

Getting back inside the palace would be more complicated than he’d originally expected, though. With a magic barrier intact, he needed to think less like a sorcerer, and more like a common thief. As his instructor had told him, sometimes the simplest answers were the best. So he summoned himself some lock-picking tools and fashioned a new black cloak. If only he had the materials needed for a new staff… But there was no sense dwelling on the things he had no control over.

His next challenge would be the princess. Whether through the jinni or some other trickery, Aladdin had found a way around Badra’s ironclad mind. Amir needed to start fulfilling his promise to save her by breaking this curse.

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