Amina and Meher are the first to wake in the morning and manage to slip out of the bed without disturbing Ayisha and Maryam to enjoy a refreshing shower as well as each other. Ayisha wakes to find herself still embraced in the arms of her Maryam and just stays there smiling, blissfully happy. She adores Maryam who was her first real love and recalls how they agreed to be partners just a day or so after they met on the train, that happy day! Maryam had taken it slowly giving her the time to discover for herself just wonderful the love between two women can be, especially so when both are such considerate, loving and caring people. Maryam wakes up and they smile sweetly to each other and engage in a wonderfully long kiss.
Maryam says that she was dreaming of her Ayisha just before waking. Ayisha asks her if she can remember the dream and Maryam tells her that she can: "It was on the train where our eyes first met through all those people. It was love at first sight for me and the more I saw of your outer and inner beauty, the more I fell in love with you. The next 24 hours were agony because I didn't know if I would ever see you again. I knew that you had made a good impression and could only pray that you would also opt to join the Harem. What sweet joy when I saw you and was asked to help you settle in. Our time together in the Royal Apartments was so special to me, I felt a real and lasting connection with you and wanted to be with you always".
Ayisha listens smiling, nodding at various points, as Maryam continues: "When we were separated on arrival at the Royal Harem I was grief-stricken, particularly when those horrible 'favourites' belittled me at every opportunity for being a worthless social climber. Every night before dropping off to sleep, I would think only of you and hope that one day we would be reunited. When I heard the news of your wedding, I was ecstatic for you and knew that one day our paths would cross and we would never be separated like that again. Just before I woke, on the death of the Emir, Ibrahim became Emir and you became the new Emira. We were still together and deeply in love with each other into old age. There I have told you everything!" and she holds Ayisha even closer.
Ayisha is astonished and tells her that she was day-dreaming the exact same thing. Their love is a very precious and special thing to last a lifetime and must be treasured adding that her bed is now also Maryam's. Sighs of delight make them turn their heads to see Meher and Amina standing smiling in the doorway. Amina says that they didn't want to interrupt such a beautiful intercourse and ask if they may approach and congratulate them on recognising each other as life-partners. Both nod with a smile and they rush to join them on the bed, smothering them with showers of kisses as they all embrace. Ayisha says that she also loves them, as she does the Emira, but they are right Maryam and herself do have a special and lifelong love but it is an extra and not a replacement love. Maryam says much the same thing and they all cuddle together in serene happiness.
Eventually they rise from the bed and while Ayisha and Maryam shower and dress, they organise breakfast together. After breakfast, the Head Eunuch knocks at the door and Meher opens it. He asks if he may have a brief audience with the Crown Princess. Meher turns to Ayisha who heard the request and asks her to admit him. Following the formalities, Ayisha asks him to rise and asks how she may help? He says that he has three missions to complete with Her Royal Highness, the first is to report that enquiries among the eunuchs has revealed a former architect and a group of former builders among them. They have considered the project and wish to submit some proposals to Your Royal Highness.
Ayisha is delighted and says it is wonderful news then suggests he address her as Princess to save him having to find the right words. She asks the nature of his second mission. He says that the jeweller wishes to advise the Princess that he has sourced the identical jewels for the ring he was commissioned to make and estimates it will be ready late in the afternoon. She smiles again and tells him that his missions have given her pleasure and asks him to tell the architect and the jeweller that of her pleasure and arrange for them to visit her, when they are ready to present the proposed plans for stage one of the building work and when the ring is ready for Lady Maryam. On being asked for details of his third mission, he informs her that the Crown Prince has requested the pleasure of the Princess' company in his apartments. She asks him to make the arrangements for her visit to the Royal Palace and he is delighted to so so immediately. He thanks her for her kind reception and words, bows deeply and Meher sees him out.
Ayisha asks the ladies, to include Maryam, to assist her to prepare and they all go into her bedroom where she is undressed for her shower. She asks with a cheeky grin who is going to wash her thoroughly, who is going to take care of her fragrancing and finally, who will dress her. They decide that Maryam should attend to her needs regarding an intimate shower, Meher will attend to her fragrancing and Amina will dress her. It is no sooner planned before the plan is set in motion. Ayisha emerges from her shower aroused, Meher fragrances her intimately in order to disguise her state of arousel and Amina does the same as she dresses her. When she is completely ready, they attend her to the lounge to await her escorts. While waiting, Ayisha suggests that her sisters of the ring enjoy themselves while she is away.
There is very soon a knock at the door, Maryam opens the door to find the Head Eunuch with an armed guard ready to escort her to the door that connects the Royal Harem to the Royal Palace. Since she is leaving the privacy and safety of the Royal Harem, she wears both a hair covering and a veil to ensure her modesty until she is safely within the apartments of her husband. As she steps out into the corridor, she whispers to her ladies to remember her exhortation. They bow smiling and her party moves away toward the outside world of the Royal Palace. At the locked door, words are exchanged through a small grill with a cover. After it is opened and the Head Eunuch surrenders the protection of the Crown Princess to the waiting personal guards of the Crown Prince waiting to conduct her to her husband's apartments.