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The Throne of Solomon by Snowgrouse
Fandoms: Thief of Bagdad (1940), كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة | Kitaab 'alf layla wa-layla | One Thousand and One Nights
23 Jan 2018
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Jaffar, son of Yahya of the Barmakids has arrived in Basra, come to ask for the Princess's hand.
At first, Sultan Mahmoud is overjoyed, but soon puzzled, perplexed. For the new Caliph requests a most intimate audience with his prospective bride, one with a most curious requirement: that he be allowed to gaze upon her--the woman no man has seen!--unveiled, and that he might inspect her head in particular for himself.
"But what for?" The Sultan sputters. "She is not some slave girl, to be examined by all who would purchase her! Is not seeing her face enough?"
"I believe," Jaffar states in all seriousness, "that you have done well to keep her from all eyes. For my astrologer tells me a very special child was born this hour seventeen years ago. 'A child in whom meet the moon and the sun...?'"
The Sultan's eyes fly wide; he shakes his head, blubbering. "Nobody knows that. Nobody! Why, I had her swaddled, the astrologer beheaded, and the midwife--"
Jaffar but tilts his head. "I have astrologers of my own, and means of seeing past walls. Seventeen years have I waited, until such a conjunction was upon us again. Today, I was told, was the most auspicious time for me to seek her as bride."
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The Guardians of Samarkand by Snowgrouse
Fandoms: Thief of Bagdad (1940), كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة | Kitaab 'alf layla wa-layla | One Thousand and One Nights, كتب الف ليلة و ليلة | Kitaab 'alf layla wa-layla | One Thousand and One Nights & Related Fandoms
10 Jun 2018
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Jaffar and Yassamin's passion-filled holiday at the palace of Afrasiyab is shadowed by what they soon discover is a conspiracy against Jaffar's brother, Mohammad, the sultan of Samarkand. The Barmakid brothers and the women all set out to uncover the plot and to disarm the rebels by any means necessary; magic and seduction their foremost weapons in their battle to protect their beloved city.
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"Sit down," Jaffar whispers and smacks Fadl on the arse, taking his own advice on one of the marble benches lining the pool. "You're not exactly being inconspicuous."
"Neither are you," Fadl groans. "You haven't stopped posing since we came here!" he grumbles and pokes Jaffar with an elbow as he catches him making eyes at yet another man. "What's gone into you, you madman? Are you in heat?!"
"Perhaps, brother mine, perhaps," Jaffar purrs and sprawls against the back of the bench. He leans on his elbows and tilts his head against the wall a coquette, letting his freshly-oiled hair tumble onto his neck and shoulders as he lounges there. The length of his legs allows him to spread them in blatant offering, his towel--if you can call it that--of thin white cotton revealing more than it hides.
Series
- Part 23 of Of Roses Unfurling