"The city of Rhakotis had never seen a more talented magus than a young man called Kalefe. And it had never seen a more selfish, underhanded, dishonest magus, either." In 1919, Dr. Kenneth Godwin tells his two young children, Nimrod and Layla, a classic djinn folktale. Disclaimer: I don't own either Children of the Lamp or Books of the Beginning. Read and review! Sas efcharistó!