[Who knows how much her mental image is right? In some sense, an exotic desert kingdom from the far distant past must surely seem idealized and romantic, full of mystery and intrigue and superstition, the simpler days of a bygone era. After all, why wouldn't it seem magical, especially thinking of the opulence of palace life?
In another..... well, the slums were a vast and sprawling place, full of dirty, ragged, broken, wretched things and people, desperate and impoverished. Without modern conveniences, there was very little mitigating the squalor and misery that so many lived in
Safavid waves a tassel, as though playfully dismissing the suggestion. Even if he actually was a king's carpet, he certainly wouldn't be called Your Highness!]
If I belonged to anyone now it would be Aladdin. He's marrying the princess so he'll be sultan someday, but not yet!
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In another..... well, the slums were a vast and sprawling place, full of dirty, ragged, broken, wretched things and people, desperate and impoverished. Without modern conveniences, there was very little mitigating the squalor and misery that so many lived in
Safavid waves a tassel, as though playfully dismissing the suggestion. Even if he actually was a king's carpet, he certainly wouldn't be called Your Highness!]
If I belonged to anyone now it would be Aladdin. He's marrying the princess so he'll be sultan someday, but not yet!