Jaffar

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He Who Slew The Stars

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Traveler. Musician. Nobody. Jaffar has gone by many names, in many clans. Sibyl knows the total tally and she doesn't say a word. Together they hop from place to place, never quite content to settle. And that suits them, until they meet Nefertiti.

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Jaffar feels it. While he tunes his strings, while Sibyl adjusts her dancing silks and they prepare for the next dinner. This Hollow is cursed. This clan haunted. And had he his usual way, he'd be long gone already. But Nefertiti saved them from the sands, gave them shelter, spared them, while her clan of thieves might have sacked their small trove. And Sibyl and Jaffar like Nefer. She's the heart of the clan, and the only thing keeping the Throne of Thieves and The Hollow Kingdom from outright downfall. But she can't stop it, not for reasons she can't see. But Jaffar does.

Children go missing in the night. Orphaned eggs valued more than water. In a clan of orphans, one might not wonder why. But Jaffar doesn't wonder. And he has a sneaking suspicion that he already knows to be true.

For better or worse, Jaffar owes a life debt, to a woman on a crumbling throne.