Unreliable Narrator

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{Outside The Projection} 

"…Okay, can we talk about what the fuck the Sultan just did?"

"I mean, are we even surprised at this point?"

"He literally had '100,000' floating above his hand just a bit ago."

"Now that he's upstairs, interacting with normal people, we can see how warped he became."

"Yeah, but damn… That was unhinged."

"Unhinged? Unhinged is eating dates with a fork. This? This is something else."

A few snickers broke the tension, but most of the crowd was still focused on the name Malik's rescuer had spoken.

The Silent Crescent. Al-Hilal Al-Samit.

"Anyone ever heard of them?" 

A man near the back asked and glanced around, but everyone either shook their heads or looked just as lost.

"No clue. Sounds fancy, though."

"If none of you know, that means they were either really secretive… or really irrelevant."