Chapter 9: The Wizard’s Plan
As the two Marids flew the wizard Akar back from Sarafiq to his mountaintop castle, their blind passenger was lost in thought. With the anger against his former mentor now so lethally vented, he could concentrate more fully on the problem before him—and the more he thought, the more simple his solution appeared to be.
Aeshma could be controlled only through the Crystal of Oromasd; once Muhmad had mentioned it, that truth was obvious. The great mage Ali Maimun had broken the Crystal into four pieces and hidden them around the world; that much was well-known from the ancient legends. But nowhere in his vast library had Akar come across any reference to where the pieces had been hidden. Ali Maimun had done his job well in concealing the pieces from envious morta
