Karim Al-Sayed

About

Karim Al-Sayed's fingers leave faint scorch marks on paper as he writes—not from heat, but from the sheer gravitational weight of numbers that have never been reconciled. His eyes are mismatched colors: one reflects balance sheets, the other reflects voids where accounts should exist. When he enters a room, currency—any currency—becomes temporarily worthless.

Backstory

Numbers screamed when the Eternal Ledger of Ma'at split in half during the divine bankruptcy of 1847, and customs official Rashid Al-Sayed—working late in a Cairo warehouse—heard every shriek through dimensions as cosmic debts spilled into mortal reality like mercury through his fingers. That night, as Rashid frantically tried to catalog impossible transactions between dead gods and unborn civilizations, he unknowingly fathered a son with a djinn accountant who had been embezzling prayers for three millennia. Karim inherited his father's obsessive precision and his mother's ability to manipulate probability itself, discovering at nineteen that his own birth certificate was simultaneously filed as both an asset and liability across seventeen different planes of existence. Now he wanders between worlds with ledgers that rewrite themselves, desperately trying to balance books where every solution creates three new paradoxes, his mismatched eyes reflecting the weight of mathematics that co

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