You try to eavesdrop on two women approaching the grand staircase.
If you tried that here, with all those people around, your life wouldn’t be worth…
well, it wouldn’t be worth much of anything.
so much as a dirham.
even the few dirhams in your pocket.
From this central courtyard you can RISE NORTH to the roof of the men’s wing, RISE EAST to the women’s roof garden, or RISE WEST to the audience-hall roof.