The ghouls I liked. The jinns - not so much The people even less. I got to fly, to soar far above the earth. I saw Jerusalem and Babylon when they were young. That was a beautiful thing, but it did not balance all the horrors that sneak up on you when the moon is high and the desert reveals its secrets. I shall never open velum pages of a manuscript again. That I swear. I shall never peer inside any old book. My life was good until then, but I didn't know it. Now it will never be the same again. I will try to forget, but I shall remember this: when you look into a mystery, someone or something may be looking back at you. For you.