Are they suspicious?  How could they not be?  But the messenger does not bid them follow on the spot, only assemble in a meeting-place they know but have not visited, a small intimate pavilion whose price for one night's revelry is famously a thousand platinum coins.  Even in the City of Brass where Efreet and Malik do vie to show their pride and wealth, it is a significant expense.  With twenty such nights you could buy a Wish-diamond, even at its fair price in Brass from one Efreeti to another.

If it's a trick or a trap, it's an expensive-enough one that it would be dishonorable not to spring it, to leave their enemy forlorn at the altar after such grand preparation that honors them by this expense.

Are the six Malik suspicious?  How could they not be?  But the messenger does not bid them follow on the spot, only assemble in a meeting-place they know but have not visited, a small intimate pavilion whose price for one night's revelry is famously a thousand platinum coins.  Even in the City of Brass where Efreet and Malik do vie to show their pride and wealth, it is a significant expense.  With twenty such nights you could buy a Wish-diamond, even at its fair price in Brass from one Efreeti to another.

If it's a trick or a trap, it's an expensive-enough one that it would be dishonorable not to spring it, to leave their enemy forlorn at the altar after such grand preparation that honors them by this expense.

Are the six Malik suspicious?  How could they not be?  But the messenger does not bid them follow on the spot, only assemble in a meeting-place they know but have not visited, a small intimate pavilion whose price for one night's revelry is famously a thousand platinum coins.  Even in the City of Brass where Efreet and Malik do vie to show their pride and wealth, it is a significant expense.  With twenty such nights you could buy a Wish-diamond, even at its fair price in Brass from one Efreeti to another.

If it's a trick or a trap, it's an expensive-enough one that it would be dishonorable not to spring it, to leave their enemy forlorn at the altar after such grandiose preparation that honors them by this expense.