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She looked closer at the object she'd mistaken for a bookmark - a length of metallic silver tinged with hints of bright mandarin. She picked it up, holding it aloft as it glinted in the gas lamps' glare.
Aasim cursed, his voice going hoarse. "Is that what I think it is?"
Fatma nodded. It was a metallic feather, as long as her forearm. Along its surface, faint lines of fiery script moved and writhed about as if alive.
"Holy tongue," Aasim breathed.
"Holy tongue," she confirmed.
"But that means it belongs to . . ."
"An angel, " Fatma finished for him.
Her frown deepened. Now what in the many worlds, she wondered, would a djinn be doing with one of these?
Even now, you fail to grasp the strength of my conviction." And with those last words, he plunged the three blades through his body - one stabbing into his chest, a second ripping apart the armor surrounding his heart, and a third sliding through the metallic links of his neck. Bright fluid like the blood of a star poured from the wounds. He swayed, then toppled to crash upon the ground and was still.
"Well, that was unexpected," Siti remarked.
