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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Foxbytes" data-source="post: 6996171" data-attributes="member: 6866331">[align=left]http://i65.tinypic.com/29bk4t5.jpg[/align]  Najiyah lingered behind the others as they departed down the pathway away from Suelasta's menagerie, silently perturbed by feelings too alien for her to identify.  Distracted by a trail along the bricks leading deeper into the merchant's private residence, Najiyah noted that said trail mysteriously stopped right where they had all been standing.She lowered herself briefly, bending at the knees so as not to part the skirts of her elaborate caftan and immodestly expose her legs, then scooped up a bit of the grain and rubbed it between her fingers.  Animal feed?  She stared after Salahuddin's back with narrowed eyes before finally following after the party and rejoining them.Najiyah tucked her sleeves more over her hands and rubbed them together for warmth, the night quickly bringing its coolness to the dry, desert lands.  Though portly men such as Suelasta might sweat easily in the heat of the city's braziers, Najiyah frequently found there was never enough fire around to keep her comfortably warm.  But even more so, tonight.  All day, she had been feeling uncomfortably chilled by...something.And so it was that when Salahuddin unceremoniously, and without warning, bade the wind genie to appear, Najiyah's reaction was...less than composed.Her black eyes dilated until they appeared otherworldly and beastly, and she thrust her finger pointedly to Salahuddin and Easifa both, with any thought towards Amina's prisoner completely overshadowed by something more instinctual and more powerful taking over."I KNEW IT!  I...KNEW...IT!"To anyone witnessing this scene without knowing Easifa was there, it would look as if the vizier had spent too many hours in the sun.  Emotions were running hot and fast from the pit of her stomach, only to boil some place around her ears; emotions so foreign and so uncharacteristic for the jovial Najiyah that it took her quite some time before she ascertained the nature of them.  Anger, disdain, hostility."He's been here the whole time!"Something about the djinni made Najiyah wrinkle her nose and resist the urge to spit at his non-existing feet.  But that was completely irrational, rude, and frightfully unlike her.  She had no reason to feel this way about someone she had never met.  Great gods, she'd never even seen a wind genie, before.The shock of having identified the unprovoked hatred for what it was, was at least enough to shake Najiyah out of her possession.  She pressed the heel of her hand against her brow as she stumbled back, her gaze blurred and unfocused as she tried to look towards Amina and Akilah."I'm sorry...what?  Who is trying to follow us?"</blockquote>

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