Bab 269: Cairo

After Abdullah finished settling these patrolling guards, he re-approached the gates to the citadel of Cairo again , and is greeted by another two Sultan's personal slave Mamluk guards standing by the guard post. Looking at them by instinct Abdullah reached for his purse once more taking out more Egyptian Dinars to feed their stomach first, but just as Abdullah approached the two guards with a grinning face and a handful of tickling coins, the Mamluk guard stopped him pressing his hand and said in a rather alien Ottoman tongue. "The Sultan is expecting you, come inside with me." 

"Expecting me?" Abdullah is baffled. "What do you mean the Sultan is expecting me?"