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marketplace near the public bath. forward and whispered urgently to
Right when he set up shop a woman the lady, I see a hole. The lady was
came running up to him and asked confused at first, a what? She said.
him for his help. “Diviner, please help Ahmed told her that he could see a
me I wore my ring to the bath today whole. The lady brightened and ran
and now it’s missing please tell me back into the shower. She rushed
where it is.” back to the bath and found the hole
Ahmed took a deep breath and in the wall where she had hidden her
rolled the dice as he desperately ring for safekeeping and forgotten it.
searched for something wise to say, Then she came back out to Ahmed.
he happened to notice a small tear She thanks him praised him for all
in the ladies clock. It was a small his help. And to Ahmed’s surprise
hole, and showing through the hole she gave him a golden coin.
a bit of her arm. So Ahmed leaned That evening when Jamell saw the
