A story from One Thousand and One Nights of an incompetent dude, a genie that's more than happy to be used for evil, and how the best legal outcome is one that involves free honey cakes. This is also where we wrap up the framing narrative, and we see if Scheherazade's gambit, of keeping herself alive by telling her husband stories every night for the past 989 days, finally pays off.

The creature is Irusan, the Irish king of the cats, and he is tired of listening to your terrible poetry.

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Music:

"Arctic Draba" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Aloscape I" by Blue Dot Sessions

"In Other Times" by Blue Dot Sessions

"The Trestle" by Blue Dot Sessions

"La Naranja Borriana" by Blue Dot Sessions

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