Tina’s Reviews > The Empire of Gold > Status Update

- [ ] “I think it a mistake to judge the Creator by the misdeeds of mortals.”
- [ ] “Sit with this burden, Dara. You may find doing so is easier than holding it over your head and waiting for it to crush you.”
- [ ] Dara is disillusioned with the Nahid’s and talks to a priest to find purpose

- [ ] Ali pulls Nahri out of the water - unconscious
- [ ] A Marid shows up! Helps him save Nahri
- [ ] The Mahrid, Sobek, helps them go to Ta Ntry
- [ ] Sobek is the one who made a deal to disguise Nahri as Shafit - her kin paid the price

-Nahri was totally checking out Ali
-Awkward/funny exchange when he realizes what when he was sick and she healed him she saw him naked
-A little magic returning to them
- [ ] Ali wants Nahri to take the ring - thinks it wants her
-“I envy you sometimes,” she said softly. “I wish I had your faith in people’s goodness.”
-They get caught by an Ifrit! Sends ghouls to fight them and they pull Nahri under water

- [ ] Dara knows it’s a trap but goes to rescue a Dara he trained that reminds him of his little sister
- [ ] She can’t move so he enchants the mat she’s on to get her to safety but he is brought down by an iron net
- [ ] Dara shot by a human weapon and badly injured
- [ ] Dara makes it back to the palace but has started lying to M

- [ ] Ali & Nahri packing to leave Cairo - very funny

- [ ] Dara at least starting to be disillusioned
- [ ] Dara remembering being summoned by the Nahid council
- [ ] Oh they definitely saw his talent and used their power against his naivety and youth
- [ ] Ah instead of killing survivors he brought them back to the capital and the Nahids banished him for it

- [ ] Nahri takes Ali to the bazaar
- [ ] “She survived trauma by suppressing it, by shoving back the grief and rage that would otherwise swallowed her whole.”
- [ ] Ali wants to go to Ta Ntry to raise the cause, Nahri doesn’t want to leave Cairo, they fight, she storms off
- [ ] Well, at least she finally admitted to herself she loved Dara
- [ ] Agrees with Ali’s plan after all

- [ ] Nahri dreaming of the night her village was attacked as a child
- [ ] “Not wanting to be destroyed by despair doesn’t make you a coward, Ali. It makes you a survivor.”
- [ ] She performs surgery to have a boy - brain surgery
- [ ] Yaqub offers her the apothecary ❤️

- [ ] NAHRI’S origins & how she got her name
- [ ] “But I’ve got a lot of experience finding slivers of light to cherish when life gets more miserable than usual.”
- [ ] Uhg Dara stop!
- [ ] The peri’s!

- [ ] Ali thinks his brother is dead
- [ ] Ali lost is magic except his water abilities