HOW TIRING THIS journey was! Why did they have to…
DAWN WAS ALWAYS a busy time. Up quickly from her…
“YOU WILL BE late for school. What were you—” Ayu…
ADI ATE RAVENOUSLY and went off to bed in the…
ANDA MANGIL’S CAR was big and comfortable, and though it…
MINUTES PASSED. All was quiet and dark and peaceful. Adi’s…
ANDA MANGIL WAS parked not in the street in front…
THE GREAT CARVED stone towers and spires and stupas of…
DEWI HAD SEEN the sea only in pictures, and even…
ADI AND ANDA Mangil were almost at the mouth of…
“I DON’T LIKE THE look of that sea,” said Husam…
THE MOUNTAIN OF Gunungbatu was actually a bleak, stony hill…
DEWI AND HUSAM AL-DIN had hoped they might catch up…
ADI FELT A LOT better after his wash. The washhouse…
RATUPOHON LED THE way past the polluted pool and the…
THIS IS HOW Paradise must look, thought Adi as he…
HOURS PASSED. Blind, dumb, helpless on the back of the…
ADI SLEPT LIKE a baby that night. No dreams or…
FOR A MOMENT, after the afreet had vanished, Dewi and…
ADI HAD NEVER been in the palace before, though he…
DEWI AND HUSAM hurried down the tunnel. The light got…
THE SULTAN AND the Prince listened in silence to Adi’s…
IT WAS NOT an easy scramble to the top of…
ADI RACED BACK through the corridors and courtyards to the…
DEWI AND HUSAM rode on through the afternoon. The bike…
HEART IN MOUTH, Adi clattered down the dark spiral staircase…
ADI SLOWLY CAME to, with an aching head, a swollen…
“IT IS NOT over yet,” said the Sultan, a while…