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“No; this isn’t it;” I said without being contrary。 “This is a Mongol Book of

Kings: The iron horses of Alexander’s iron cavalry were filled with naphtha and

set aflame like lamps; before being set against the enemy with flames shooting

from their nostrils。”

We stared at the flaming army of iron copied from Chinese paintings。

“Jezmi Agha;” I said; “we later depicted in the Chronicle of Sultan Selim the

gifts that Shah Tahmasp’s Persian ambassadors; who also presented this book;

brought with them twenty…five years ago…”

He swiftly located the Chronicle of Sultan Selim and placed it in front of me。

Paired   with   the   vibrantly   colored   page   that   showed   the   ambassadors

presenting the Book of Kings along with the other gifts to Sultan Selim; my eyes

found; among the gifts which were listed one by one; what I’d long ago read

but had forgotten because it was so incredible:

The  turquoise…and…mother…of…pearl…handled  golden  plume  needle  which  the

Venerated Talent of Herat; Master of Master Illuminators Bihzad; used in the act of

blinding his exalted self。

I asked the dwarf where he found the Chronicle of Sultan Selim。 I followed

him through the dusty darkness of the Treasury; meandering between chests;

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piles  of  cloth  and  carpet;  cabis  and  beneath  stairways。  I  noticed  how  our

shadows;  now  shrinking;  now  enlarging;  slipped  over  shields;  elephant  tusks

and tiger skins。 In one of the adjoining rooms; this one also suffused with the

same  strange  redness  of  cloth  and  velvet;  beside  the  iron  chest  whence

emerged the Book of Kings; amid other volumes; cloth sheets embroidered with

silver  and  gold  wire;  raw  and  unpolished  Ceylon  stone;  and  ruby…studded

daggers; I saw some of the other gifts that Shah Tahmasp had sent: silk carpets

from  Isfahan;  an  ivory  chess  set  and  an  object  that  immediately  caught  my

attention—a  pen  case  decorated  with  Chinese  dragons  and  branches  with  a

mother…of…pearl…inlaid rosette obviously from the time of Tamerlane。 I opened

the case and out came the subtle scent of burned paper and rosewater; within

rested  the  turquoise…and  mother…of…pearl…handled  golden  needle  used  to

fasten plumes to turbans。 I took up the needle and returned to my spot like a

specter。

Alone  again;  I  placed  the  needle  that  Master  Bihzad  had  used  to  blind

himself upon the open page of the Book of Kings and gazed at it。 It wasn’t the

needle he’d blinded himself with that made me shudder; but seeing an object

he’d taken into his miraculous hands。

Why  did  Shah  Tahmasp  send  this  terrifying  needle  with  the  book  he’d

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