reading the version of TCOTW with the frame plot removed is so weird. everything's normal then suddenly in the final letter Altangi is like, My son!!! (??? You fucked??? When???) And you recognise the niece of my best friend, who was the one you saved from slavery in Persia!!! (HE WHAT FROM WHERE. WHEN. EXCUSE ME.) Yay!!!! May you now be married!!! (yeah sure ig.)
I like to imagine everything's just fine and everyones having dinner then Hingpo just bursts through the door looking absolutely traumatised drenched in seawater and dirt and Altangi's like oh!!! my son!!! I forgot I had a family :D what a pleasant surprise











