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One

HOW TIRING THIS journey was! Why did they have to…

Two

DAWN WAS ALWAYS a busy time. Up quickly from her…

Three

“YOU WILL BE late for school. What were you—” Ayu…

Four

ADI ATE RAVENOUSLY and went off to bed in the…

Five

ANDA MANGIL’S CAR was big and comfortable, and though it…

Six

MINUTES PASSED. All was quiet and dark and peaceful. Adi’s…

Seven

ANDA MANGIL WAS parked not in the street in front…

Eight

THE GREAT CARVED stone towers and spires and stupas of…

Nine

DEWI HAD SEEN the sea only in pictures, and even…

Ten

ADI AND ANDA Mangil were almost at the mouth of…

Eleven

“I DON’T LIKE THE look of that sea,” said Husam…

Twelve

THE MOUNTAIN OF Gunungbatu was actually a bleak, stony hill…

Thirteen

DEWI AND HUSAM AL-DIN had hoped they might catch up…

Fourteen

ADI FELT A LOT better after his wash. The washhouse…

Fifteen

RATUPOHON LED THE way past the polluted pool and the…

Sixteen

THIS IS HOW Paradise must look, thought Adi as he…

Seventeen

HOURS PASSED. Blind, dumb, helpless on the back of the…

Eighteen

ADI SLEPT LIKE a baby that night. No dreams or…

Nineteen

FOR A MOMENT, after the afreet had vanished, Dewi and…

Twenty

ADI HAD NEVER been in the palace before, though he…

Twenty-One

DEWI AND HUSAM hurried down the tunnel. The light got…

Twenty-Two

THE SULTAN AND the Prince listened in silence to Adi’s…

Twenty-Three

IT WAS NOT an easy scramble to the top of…

Twenty-Four

ADI RACED BACK through the corridors and courtyards to the…

Twenty-Five

DEWI AND HUSAM rode on through the afternoon. The bike…

Twenty-Six

HEART IN MOUTH, Adi clattered down the dark spiral staircase…

Twenty-Seven

ADI SLOWLY CAME to, with an aching head, a swollen…

Twenty-Eight

“IT IS NOT over yet,” said the Sultan, a while…

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