Genie Twilight: The tale of the Sphinx is of course far from the only story of Somnambula. I actually heard this recently from Kubuya in letters that I send to her and Malakhar from time to time. When I told her about what Rainbow told me about the legend, Kubuya replied back with a story of how Somnambula met and became friends with Jinn, the first genie who we heard so much about from our last trip to Saddle Arabia. The village Somnambula was from wasn’t too far from where Saddle Arabia is.
 
When the two met, Jinn had only been a genie for a few years. But none the less she was already starting to travel around granting wishes to those she let find her bottle. Though when she asked Somnambula what she’d like, she actually refused to give a wish as she already has all she ever could need. Which would be what got her through the ordeal with the Sphinx: Hope. But she was at least fascinated with Jinn so they just started talking to get to know each other and pretty soon they became great friends.
 
Jinn would sometimes come by Somnambula’s village to help keep all the hope that Somnamubla cherished so much by granting the wishes of those in the village that needed hope the most.
 
The two of them when together even shared a nickname: Hope & Desire. The two words that very well defined the two respectively.
 
((This is the first time I’ve shown a sprited version of a character that was posthumously important to the Return to Saddle Arabia story. The very first Genie. Her only previous appearence was in one of the vectored drawings that Navitas did for the story.
 
For my thoughts on Daring Done though, go here))