It was definitely worth the wait :)

Considering what all Miria has been through, something tells me that she ought to be more cruel and distrustful to Curdle as a reflection of the wrong done to her by a jinni. At the same time, it would have been more difficult to progress the story forward, and I think it says something about her character that she can show a kind gesture to Curdle when technically she should not. I'd like to think that she's capable of seeing Tamal's issues as [i]his[/i] issues, not the issues of the jinn as a whole. Or at least that is my excuse for herbehavior :P What do you think? She she be more of an unforgiving jerk to Curdle just because he is a jinni? I hope I'm keeping enough mistrust there, at least; she is certainly not one who will greet every jinni with open arms, haha. She may not even trust the jinn enough to keep one as her servant and is only coming to terms with Curdle because she feels like she must in order to get rid of him.