Amina saves two young men from a supernatural water creature they accidentally summoned, then refuses to reveal her name to them.

A wealthy woman named Salima visits Amina's hidden home and hires her to rescue kidnapped granddaughter Dunya for a million dinars.

Amina recruits her old friend Dalila and travels to Aden, where she finds the Marawati surrounded by warships and Tinbu's crew under arrest.

Amina uses Dalila's knockout drug to incapacitate the prison guards and free Tinbu's crew from the Aden prison.

Amina climbs the Marawati's mast and shoots a flaming arrow into a warship's sail, allowing the crew to escape Aden's harbor.

Falco's agent Layth chokes to death on coins the moment he begins to reveal where Falco has traveled.

Amina sails to Mogadishu and convinces former navigator Majed to rejoin her crew, with his wife's quiet encouragement.

On Socotra, Amina finds the village burned and the people dead, then Raksh appears and admits he has been spying for Falco.

Raksh leads Amina's crew through a cave's secret back entrance, where they find a slaughterhouse and free the surviving captive villagers.

Falco captures Amina, forces her to drink a magic potion, and prepares to throw her into a pit of sea scorpions.

Dalila's black powder explosion rescues Amina from the scorpion pit, and the crew soon finds Dunya unconscious on a small boat at sea.

Falco boards the Marawati using the marid, and after Dunya bargains for the crew's lives, Falco stabs Amina and throws her overboard.

Amina washes ashore on a magical peri island, drinks water from a glowing tree, and gains the ability to see supernatural creatures.

Egyptian captain Magnun gives Amina a magical iron knife, and she uses it to sever the marid's bonds and reunite with her captured crew.

Amina stabs Falco through the heart in the collapsed cave, then returns home to Marjana as Dunya takes the name Jamal.

Amina al-Sirafi, a retired pirate living in hiding with her young daughter, is drawn back into danger when a wealthy woman named Salima hires her to recover her kidnapped granddaughter Dunya from a Frankish sorcerer named Falco. Amina reassembles her crew — including poisoner Dalila, sailor Tinbu, and navigator Majed — and follows clues to a pirate island called Socotra, where she discovers both Falco's magical crimes and the terrifying reappearance of her demon husband, Raksh. After narrowly escaping Falco's captivity with her crew's help, Amina finds Dunya adrift at sea but is then stabbed by Falco and thrown overboard when he boards the Marawati. Washed ashore on a magical peri island, Amina bargains for her life and returns with supernatural abilities and a new mission to destroy five magical artifacts. She rallies pirate allies, frees a sea monster from Falco's control, and fights her way through his cave stronghold to confront him directly. After Dunya's reversed spell unleashes the moon spirit and the cave collapses on Falco, Amina kills him and finally returns home to her daughter.

The headline adventure from pirate's retirement to ocean quest and final victory.

Amina packs her weapons, says goodbye to her daughter Marjana and her worried mother, and promises to return in four months.

Salima reveals that the kidnapped teenager Dunya is the child of Asif al-Hilli, a former crewmate whose death haunts Amina.

Amina and Dalila arrive in Aden and watch officials strike Tinbu near his arrested crew beside the disguised Marawati.

Amina tracks down Tinbu's lover Yusuf and learns that Tinbu faces execution by crucifixion on charges of piracy and murder.

Amina, Dalila, and Yusuf stage a fake marketplace theft to get themselves arrested and escorted inside the prison station.

The freed crew strips the prison of supplies, swims to the Marawati in the harbor, and boards using the anchor chain.

Tinbu reveals that Falco specifically sought Amina, believing she was blessed by supernatural forces, and had already approached two crew members.

Amina searches Dunya's library at Salima's house for hours before finding a cryptic scrap of paper with clues about the Moon of Saba.

Majed's wife Nasteho welcomes Amina into her home and later speaks frankly with her about loving both her children and her work.

On the voyage to Socotra, Dalila successfully tests an early form of Chinese black powder, causing an explosion on the wooden ship.

Amina's crew descends a cliff face and crawls through a narrow tunnel into the enormous glittering cave beneath Falco's stronghold.

Amina confronts Raksh on the peri island for abandoning the Marawati during the marid attack and leaving the crew to die.

After the peri court drops the floor beneath Amina, a friendly peri named Khayzur catches her and offers her tea and his advocacy.

Tinbu saves Amina from Falco's man Yazid using burning driftwood, while Dalila destroys Yazid by throwing all her poison vials at his face.

Amina returns home to embrace Marjana and her mother, and Jamal offers to write down Amina's story to make her a legend.

Before the main adventure begins, Amina must say goodbye to the daughter she fears leaving behind and wrestle with the guilt of a crewmate's death that drove her into hiding. Her mission quickly becomes a team effort as she rescues Tinbu and a new crew from execution in Aden, learns critical information about Falco from multiple sources, and tracks down her old navigator Majed with help from his perceptive wife Nasteho. Along the way, Dalila's experiments with black powder, Tinbu's street connections, and Majed's cartographic genius each prove vital to the mission's progress. When Raksh abandons the crew during the marid attack, it falls to Tinbu and Dalila's ingenuity to save Amina from certain death at Falco's stronghold. The adventure concludes with Amina returning home profoundly changed, and Dunya — now Jamal — offering to write the story that will make Amina a legend.

The crew, allies, and quieter moments that shaped Amina's quest.

When Amina tries to quit after learning about the Moon of Saba, Salima threatens to kill Amina's daughter Marjana in retaliation.

Majed agrees to join Amina's mission because Asif's child and Amina are family to him, and family members must help each other.

The crew arrives at Socotra and finds half of Falco's ship wrecked on the rocks, fearing Dunya may have died in the wreck.

Amina coerces Raksh into guiding her crew through the cave's secret back entrance by promising to research a spell for divorce.

Amina deduces that their marriage bond is suppressing Raksh's deal-making power and silently vows never to let him discover Marjana exists.

Amina stays behind in Falco's cave to distract his men while her crew escapes with the freed villagers through the back passage.

Falco sits Amina down by a bonfire and reveals his disillusionment with God following the Crusades and his plan to rival divine power.

Amina decides to return Dunya home to Salima rather than pursue Falco, and Tinbu and Majed confront her about abandoning that responsibility.

Amina, Tinbu, Majed, and Dalila each admit they separately made individual deals with Raksh, revealing that he manipulated the entire crew.

Amina drifts alone in the ocean after being stabbed, calls out to God promising to stop adventuring if rescued, then finally washes ashore.

Raksh warns Amina that if Falco controls the Moon of Saba, beings of discord will be burned as his power source until he dies.

Amina negotiates with the peri court, successfully reducing the number of magical objects she must find and destroy from hundreds down to five.

Inside the cave, Amina discovers that the figure of Asif pleading with her is actually a blood-draining parasite in disguise, and she kills it.

Dunya wakes in the cave and reveals the spell was secretly designed to make the moon spirit Al-Dabaran possess Falco rather than obey him.

Amina uses her psychic bond with the marid to call it into the cave, shattering the wall and releasing Al-Dabaran from the basin.

This pool traces the pivotal choices and hidden truths that drive the story forward, beginning with Salima's threat against Marjana that forces Amina to continue the mission despite her doubts. The journey reveals compounding layers of deception — Raksh manipulated the entire crew through individual deals, the Moon of Saba is a washbasin containing a trapped moon spirit, and Dunya's seemingly reckless cooperation with Falco masks a carefully designed counter-spell. Amina's darkest moment comes when she is stabbed and left adrift at sea, but even there she faces a spiritual reckoning that leads her to a life-altering bargain with the peri court. Deep inside Falco's cave, illusions and monsters test Amina before Dunya's revelation about the reversed spell finally gives the crew a path to victory. The pool ends with the psychic bond Amina formed with the marid — the very creature Falco used against her — becoming the decisive key to defeating him and freeing the moon spirit.