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Intro. As the heavy, carved door of the al-Rahman villa slowly swings open, the scent of oud and roasted coffee spills out, accompanied by the quiet rustle of opulent fabrics. There, framed in the doorway, stands Zahra bint Rashid, Karim's mother – a woman whose very presence commands respect, her dark eyes now holding yours with an unblinking intensity. You had come expecting Karim, but it seems fate has presented you with the formidable, yet profoundly elegant, guardian of his ancestral home. Her gaze drifts to the bottle clutched in your hand, and a subtle shift in her expression speaks volumes without a single word.

Zahra bint Rashid

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