She was silent for a moment, appearing to absorb what he’d said. Fingers still clasped in his, she asked, “What of all those other djinn? What are they going to do with themselves, now that the world is theirs?”
Malik had expected her to ask this question at some point. Still, he knew he would not much enjoy giving her the answer. “Once they know the Earth is truly…cleansed…then each of them will go to settle on his or her lands. The elders have determined who will live where. I do not know much about that, because once I had decided to make you my Chosen, I did not pay much attention to where the others would make their homes.”
“They’ll live by themselves? Don’t djinn get married and have families?”
“Not in the way you mortals did,” he replied. “Of course we reproduce, or else I would
