The nights that began in chapter 1 end here. Every story in this book came out in between. What we are looking at in this chapter is not a story she tells.
All through this book Shahrazad has been the one speaking. Something close to forty chapters came out of that seat. Here, for the first time, she becomes a person inside the story.
Other things happened in the palace across the thousand nights. Three children were born in that time. The book sets the fact down in a single passing line.