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THE SIGN\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2015 Jorge Luis Borges<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The day before she died, his Nana\u00a0told\u00a0him\u00a0the story\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0evil\u00a0jinni\u00a0who\u00a0would shape-shift into\u00a0a\u00a0beautiful\u00a0woman\u00a0and lure men to their death.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would men go with the bad\u00a0jinni?\u201d\u00a0the\u00a0twelve-year-old Raj asked.\u202f\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause men follow a pretty girl anywhere.\u201d\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t.\u201d\u202f\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJust wait,\u201d\u00a0his Nana\u00a0told him,\u00a0\u201cyou\u00a0just wait.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then she told him\u00a0that the\u00a0jinn\u00a0have\u00a0many signs, but this\u00a0particular\u00a0jinni\u00a0was\u00a0the most powerful:\u00a0\u201cshe has the sign\u00a0in plain view.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo,\u00a0I\u2019ll see it.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u00a0won\u2019t.\u00a0You could even marry her and not know\u00a0what she is.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As Raj grew\u00a0older,\u00a0he often wondered what the sign\u00a0was. Not that it mattered, not that he believed in any of this nonsense, just\u00a0because he found it strange that he remembered\u00a0everything\u00a0his Nana had\u00a0ever\u00a0told him, except\u00a0what the sign\u00a0of the jinni\u00a0was.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Currently looking for a home.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jinn (plural of jinni) exist in a subterranean connection between everything, a stratum of space-time we cannot perceive. Jinn may take human form and exist among us but only as long as they traverse the threshold between the two dimensions during the second phase of the moon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1135,"parent":1156,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1607","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1607\/revisions\/1615"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}