Zain Al-Faisal

About

Zain Al-Faisal's shadow moves perpendicular to light sources, a geometrical impossibility he's stopped apologizing for. When he speaks, his words arrive in the wrong tense—past events narrated as future conditionals, creating the unsettling sensation that conversations with him are being remembered rather than experienced. His eyes contain the faint afterimage of ledger entries that no longer exist.

Backstory

Zain Al-Faisal served as Heaven's Reconciliation Seraph beneath Archangel Raguel for 4,127 years, maintaining the Ledger of Souls—a document that quantified grace expenditures, suffering allocations, and karmic interest rates across every sentient being. His meticulous audits were legendary; he once discovered a mathematical impossibility in the Psalms of Augustine and spent forty years proving it, only to realize the error had been deliberate—a test of his devotion that destroyed his faith in celestial authority. Zain Al-Faisal's fall occurred not through rebellion but through perfect clarity: having reconciled every soul's account, he discovered the fundamental ledger itself was fraudulent, maintained by angels who didn't understand their own arithmetic. He fell not in fury but in resignation, carrying with him the corrupted proof, now writing his own counter-ledger in margins of human history. In 1923, under the pseudonym 'Hassan al-Qayyim,' he attempted to publish the discrepancies

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