Thank you for this wonderful Arabian fairy tale!

Finally, they reach the Sands of Time.

Ok so Xavia stole the ring so that Shahzad will spill the Sands of Time himself. Good plan. Thanks.

Maybe Shahzad will go against the 40 Thieves.

Wow, I just finished the story on the twelve dancing princesses and look forward to this sequel. Thank you!

This is a rousing good story. The use of imagery, myth and magic are very well done. Also, for a fairy-tale your character development is excellent (traditional fairy-tales are all full of Mary Sues, and so you cannot depart too far from that and keep the flavor of the genre; I think you pushed just far enough into defining your characters).

If I would suggest any improvement, it would be around POV. The early chapters lead one to believe the story will be heroine POV and so it is a bit of a shock to find out later this is not so. Once the plot is rolling, shifting POV is not an issue. I realize this story has been complete since 2008, but if you wanted to improve it, perhaps introducing shifting POV into the early chapters would be a good course to take.

I still feel like his mother… and I'm very proud of my boy.

I'm crying. I really am. And I still feel like Shahzad's mother.

Oh suuuuure. Mak the poor girl's life even HARDER, why don'tcha?

I keep on feeling like Shahzad's mother. I keep on crying lightly and shaking my head and thinking things like "my poor boy" and such.

I love how this story is sweet but not so much that my throat is coated in syrup. And for the "not contradicting yourself" in the A/N, you could always say that Fate is a melodramatic romantic and that's why fate bound people often fall in love.

(smile) That was sweet. Really depressing, but sweet.

Oh, I'm not going to murder you. As long as you give me a time machine and Khalid's address. Then my knives and pencils and rope will be going to more… satisfactory means, you could say.

Eh, it's fine. Too much fluff this early in wouldn't seem quite right. I liked this chapter though. Funny and sweet with a nice dash of character development. And I feel like a food critic. :P

I'm getting so attached to these characters already and Shahzad's downward plunge and breaking of his promise to Faiza is breaking my heart along with Xavia's rather blunt (they seem to have that in common) rejection of Tahir.