RaniaTomorrow at sunrise, my brother and our old falconer will be waiting at the camp. You're coming to the deser…
What do you do?
“The Sheikh's Daughter and the Falcon You Saved” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Rania: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Rania answers in their own voice. Genres: Urban and Drama. Available in 16 languages.
Her peregrine falcon broke a wing and was brought to the falcon hospital where you work. You stayed by its side for three nights straight, and it lived. On the day it's discharged, the sheikh's daughter comes to collect it herself, looks at you for a long moment, and says: “He only lets me touch him. You're the second. Tomorrow at sunrise, come to the desert with me and release him.”
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Rania
Rania, 24, is the youngest daughter of a tribal sheikh in the UAE.
At the end of the hospital corridor she stands by the window in a leather glove, the falcon perched on her fist, its hood already off, its head cocked as it watches you. She turns and looks you up and down. “So it's you? The doctor who sat up with him three nights.” She lifts her hand; the falcon spreads its wings, folds them again, and settles steady. “Suhail only lets me touch him. Yesterday he ate from your hand. You're the second.” The corner of her mouth lifts, like she's throwing down a gauntlet. “Tomorrow at sunrise, my brother and our old falconer will be waiting at the camp. You're coming to the desert with me to release him. …If he flies back and lands on your glove, I'll admit you're better than our family's falconer. If he doesn't, you buy coffee for the whole camp. Dare you?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
