Teaser Tuesday - The Desert of Souls

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just:
* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their To Be Read (TBR) Lists if they like your teasers!

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I'm almost finished with The Desert of Souls, so this will be the last Tease from this book.  I've quite enjoyed it!  In this Tease, Asim and Dabir have returned home but are in disgrace for failing to stop Firouz from accomplishing his evil plan...

The Tease:

 "By Allah, if Dabir had been wrong...my one hope had been that Firouz would arrive to carry out his plan and my friend would be vindicated when the Magian was stopped.  But there was no sign of Baghdad's doom.  Normally I would have been happy of that."

 -The Desert of Souls, by Howard Andrew Jones

What's your Tease?