Status Updates From The Djinn in the Nightingal...

We've finally found a plot, at long last!

Just started the last and longest story. It's in a modern setting, which really threw me off at first

"The emotion we feel in fairy-tales when the characters are granted their wishes is a strange one. We feel the possible leap of freedom - I can have what I want - and preserve certainty that this will change nothing; that Fate is fixed." -Gillian

The atmosphere, he told her, had always been full of unseen beings - unseen by her kind - and still was. But it now needed to be negotiated. It is a bad, said the djinn, in the upper air as in bottles. I cannot spread my wings.

Hotel rooms have often the illusory presence of a magician's stage set - and this spick-and-span temporariness is part of the charm.