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A rogue prince escapes after being caught in league with another kingdom to invade and conquer a third. His escape angers the jinn who find him so disruptive to their world-story that they take him back to their realm to execute him after a mock trial. A jinnee huntsman, who is failing to find an even more disruptive princess, saves the prince so as to learn more about his prey.

The prince and princess are from the same kingdom and, because the jinn have taken them from separate realities, they are in a way the same person. The prince plans multiple escapes from the jinn even though he is daunted by their ability to disempower humanoid magic. He's willing to use the princess as a means of freeing himself from the jinn, and when he finds her he follows her and escapes. Enraged, the jinn swear death upon them both.

The princess sneaks into the jinn realm to assassinate their leaders. She was taken by the jinn as a child, escaped, and has long planned her revenge. The prince stops her so as to please the leaders and earn his own freedom. They battle and, by means of jinn power that the princess has stolen, the prince and princess fall out of the jinn realm and into a reality that is ending. Having stolen the jinn power from her, the prince bargains for his life and the princess agrees to work with him. The power is in need of a power-source and they seek one together. The prince, however, cannot be trusted and he breaks the power in a drunken debacle. Still, the princess and the prince work together to escape the ending reality.

All hope seems lost until, by uniting with an intimate intense sympathy, they attract the attention of the jinn who arrive and kidnap them again. Separated in the jinn realm, the prince is tortured and interrogated by the huntsman. The princess is visited by a rogue jinnee who has learned that she was also kidnapped by the jinn and now wants revenge. The prince and princess are taken before the jinn leaders for execution, but the rogue jinnee helps them escape. The princess kills one leader and finds them to be an illusion. The prince vows to help the princess find the real leaders, but he is killed by a jinnee judge. The princess takes the judge hostage.

The prince finds more versions of himself from separate realities in the afterlife where they have learned to avoid being consumed by God's avenging angel. The prince plans his return to the jinn realm and his reunion with the princess. The princess learns all she can about the real jinn leaders from the judge and then joins the prince in the afterlife, as she believes that the real leaders are hiding there. The prince and princess convince the other versions of themselves, along with the huntsman who was betrayed by the judge, to help them enchant the avenging angel and be taken to God (the real jinn leader).

They succeed and God tells them that he wanted to be found by them and that he's willing to make them Gods of the jinn if they spare his life. If they kill him, he vows that all the separate realities will destroy each other and in the end he will rise again to the same position. The prince wants to be a God and fears the destruction of realities. The princess wants her revenge and does not trust the God as he has already lied to them. The prince and princess battle, the princess deceives the prince with a kiss before using the jinn power to send him back into one of the realities, and the princess slays God. The prince regrets his loss of the princess and the possible destruction of the realities. He wants to help the jinn prepare, but they do not remember him as he has arrived in a different jinn reality than the one in which he had been originally taken captive.

So, there was one jinn reality and multiple humanoid realities. Now, both are multiple. Will only the humanoid realities be penetrated by other realities in the destruction, or will the jinn realities also penetrate each other? How does erasing a humanoid's memory and replacing it with a jinnee's life make someone a jinnee? Will the God's jinn power still function now that the God is dead?