The Desert song

Lost at sea

My nose twitched.

I smelt roses. Where am I..?

I struggled to lean over on my back and breath. The air was thick with rose-smelling smoke.

I groaned in pain as I moved my arm to find it unbearably sore and tied up in something.

Where was I? I thought again. What was I doing..

Then in an instant all my memories of the past week flushed back into my mind.

Aladdin! I tried to yell out but my voice wasn't working. My throat was as dry as the Sahara.

What had happened..? Last thing I remember was going to the bathroom and smelling roses. Thick.. roses.

However I didn't know that was possible. Roses don't bloom here and it's very rare to even smell a replica or sent.

I wiggled over to the other side of the room, and not knowing what was there since it was pitch black, I knocked my body against the wall.

It took a while but after a few swings and some hip pains I heard a moan from outside.

"Would you shut up in there?" The voice belonged to a woman probably around twenty or thirty.

My own voice was still weak but I managed to ask her where I was.

There was no answer so I slumped back onto the hard, damp floor.

Great luck, I have. Getting kidnapped twice in the same week. I wondered if Aladdin was okay.

Was he.. possible in on this too?!

No! He was my genie, and he seemed like he fairly liked me.

He couldn't have been in on this.

So that leaves the culprit to somebody on the boat.

Did I meet somebody..? Or insult something? I played back the night before in my mind.

Nobody seemed bothered by me joining their crew temporarily and everyone was fine with giving us food and the dinning room.

So it must have been thieves or bandits.

I concluded.

Once again I began banging myself upon the wall until I heard the woman moan again.

"Would you just shut, up!" I heard her get up and walk over to the wall.

Now was my chance!

I hid behind the door, and when she opened it, I knocked into her, sending her flying into the corner of the room.

Now that the door was wide open, I sprung out into the light and raced away from the room.

Looking back a while after running, I noticed no one was chasing me, so I stopped.

The woman was still in the room, it seemed and the rest of the buildings guards weren't around to hear her cry for help.

"The girls escaped!" She shouted desperately.

I resumed running down the hallway connected to the room and began looking for a exit.

I'd be able to escape without Aladdin as long as I had my-

"Wa-" I whimpered as I looked to my wrists and noticed the shackles were gone.

"..Aladdin?" I yelped realizing I was alone.

Alone.. alone again. I was alone again.

I finally thought I'd made a good friend.. and a temporary home.. but, even that wasn't lasting long.

I crawled onto the floor and hugged my knee's, not knowing what I should do next.

I'm not sure how long I sat there, thinking, but I came back to my senses when I heard the woman's voice now accompanied by a middle aged man.

"Where did she go?" They asked frustrated.

I got to my feet and quietly snuck around to a different hallway that looked like it was a boats.

I followed the hallway until it led up to a stair case and I followed it.

I finally reached sunlight, my eyes blinded for a moment.

I looked back down the stairs. I couldn't leave him..

I didn't even know where he was, but I couldn't leave Aladdin alone on this ship, I needed him.

His powers, and his companionship.

I'll admit I'm lonely and sad without his cheerful child-like personality.

I need to find my friend!

That's what I thought, at least. But as the two crew members walked up the stairs to meet me, I fell backwards into a boat and must have cut the rope holding it in the process, because next thing I knew I was on a small survival boat floating away from the boat I was held captive in.

"Aladdin!" I screamed towards the ship, knowing he couldn't hear me.

Even if he could though he couldn't do anything. The genie only goes where the shackles do.

And that was on the boat.

We were seperated.