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Foreword

One Thousand and One Dark Nights

Once upon a time, in the future…

I was a student fascinated with stories and learning

I studied philosophy, poetry, history, the occult, and the art and science of love and ic I had a vast library at my father’s home and collected thousands of volumes of fantastic tales

I learned all about ancient races and bygone tih the rew until I discovered that I was able to travel into the stories to actually become part of them

I wish I could say that I listened to ht to have If I had, I would not be telling you this tale now

But I was foolhardy and confused, showing off with bravery

One afternoon, curious about the hts, I traveled back to ancient Persia to see for myself if it was true that every day Shahryar (Persian: شهريار, "king") in, and then sent yesterday’s wife to be beheaded It ritten and I had read, that by the tihter, he’d killed one thousand wo with my efforts I arrived in the ed places with Scheherazade – a phenomena that had never occurred before and that still to this day, I cannot explain

Now I am trapped in that ancient past I have taken on Scheherazade’s life and the only way I can protect myself and stay alive is to do what she did to protect herself and stay alive

Every night the King calls forends and dawn breaks, I stop at a point that leaves hi spares ht hear the rest of in a new one like the one that you, dear reader, have before you now

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