The Price of Blood

A story of how myth becomes reality. A story that from nothing you get nothing—that everything must be paid for. A story that the lower are superior to the Higher in some things. A story that in life everything is not as it really is—and that it cannot be otherwise, because life is a Game…. And it all began, as usual, with a banal episode at the slave market in the glorious Turra-kan city of Tyra, where a passing Ruler, Jafar, heard an old, almost forgotten rhythm—“rubai”…