Another World

Chapter 4

Elsewherein the city of Agrabah there was a quiet activity. The hustle andbustle of the past few weeks has subsided. Jasmine's and Aladdin'swedding was over. But Razoul was still beside himself. The Sultan hadstill not found time to condemn his prisoners. Why is this Aladdinmore and more important? Razoul went to the Sultan. He bowed to him."Your majesty it is time that you condemn my prisoners. Theprison is way too crowded to get any more prisoners. "The Sultannodded thoughtfully. "Yes Razoul, you're right, but as I heard,some of the forty robbers are still running around. Catch the rest ofthe robbers and I then condemn them all together, then the fortyrobbers are definitely history. "Razoul smiled, that was betterthan imagined. "Very well your Majesty. I will call my guardsand we will attack today. They can only hide in their cave. "Withouthesitation, Razul set off. Today is probably his lucky day.

A cackling waked me up out of my sleep. The cave wasopened. This could only be Saluk. I looked carefully out of the tent.I heard shouting and the rattling of swords. No that could not beSaluk, but who then? Cautiously I sneaked into the proximity of thenoise. They were the guards of Agrabah. Razoul had probably not givenup catching the rest of the thieves. As I could see it, the robberswere clearly in the bottom. Hakim and Akam was already tied up. Whatshould I do? This is my chance to flee! But I stood here, behind therocks, wondering how I could help them. I have to do it so the guardsdid not recognize me. At least I did not want to be labeled as alawless woman. That would make my escape a lot more difficult. Isearched the cave for a way to help the robbers without endangeringmyself. I discovered something useful, arrows and bow, which Iimmediately took to myself. So I climbed one of the old templecolumns to shoot from there. I could see everything from there,perfect, and it did not look good for the robbers. After I clung thearrow in the bow rather clumsily, the arrow already fell to theground, na that could be cheerful. I picked up the arrow again andsat down again. I tried to remember my classes in archery. I had beenpretty good at the time, but I had not had a bow for a long time.

Ihad no intention of meeting someone, my pulse was racing withexcitement, I breathed in and out to calm myself. Then I aimed, Ishot my arrow just before the feet of a guard. He fell back interror. I aimed the arrows just before the guards arrived. Thiscaused them to be so frightened that the robbers had the surprisemoment on their side. The chaos could also use them to free thealready captured robbers. I had just changed my location, I jumped toanother pillar and came to an unfinished site. There I noticed awooden beam, which was held with only one rope. A targeted shot andthe bar would roll down and put a large part of the guards out ofaction. I aimed and hit the rope immediately. As I had hoped, my planstarted. By this blow the guards withdrew. They probably did not likeit from the start, where the arrows came, and now a wooden beam. Iwas relieved, I had no more arrows. I settled down in the cornerwhere I had finally crumbled.

I was ready and done. Wherewould all this end? In my thoughts so sunk, I did not notice therobbers came to me. I did not look up until I found myselfsurrounded, their eyes could not really be interpreted. I could notsay for sure whether they were grateful to me or want to lock me.Before I could break my head, Shun stretched out his hand to help meget up on my legs again.
As I now estimated the situation wereall speechless. Sure, who is also expecting someone to help if he isto be sold as a slave. I reached for Shun's hand and he pulled me up.Without a word, they left, I followed. But only up to my sleepingplace. Maybe they were thinking about slavery again. There was somehope in me.

I was not sitting in the tent for a long time,thinking about what had happened before someone came in. It was Shun.Without saying anything, he sat down to me. Then he asked me, "Whydid you help us? It was your chance to flee! Your destiny as a slaveto escape! "I tried Shun as good as i can to look in his eyes..It fluttered back into my stomach. "Well .... you helped me aswell, when I lay unconscious in the desert." Despite my effortsI looked down. I'm so stupid, I should have cut off. Now I had towatch how I got away from here. I looked at Shun, who was stillsitting next to me. I felt like he was looking at me. We sat therefor a while until he got up and walked away.

For my part, Iwas still puzzling about what I should do now. My first escape I hadscrewed myself. I reached into my pocket and touched the medallion. Asmile flitted over my face, there will certainly be otherpossibilities, I said to myself to courage me. Besides, it can nothurt to gain the confidence of the robbers.
With these thoughts Ilay down and fell asleep.

Razoul raged with anger. Normally itwould have been possible today to catch all the robbers. There wereall the other robbers in the fight, but for some reason, there were afew others who were shooting arrows at his guards. Fortunately, noone was hurt, but that had irritated his men so much that they didnot pay attention in the fight. Worse still, the already capturedrobbers could be freed thereby. But what made him mad at all was thatin the absence that someone had actually managed to penetrate thepalace prisoner here and free his prisoners.

According to thetestimonies of the guards, only one man has taken them by surprise,someone with a weapon that look like a hit, only with three claws. Heknew who it could be, but that was absolutely impossible. Saluk wasdead, as Aladdin had said, there was no way to bring him back to lifeand yet the description was right down to the smallest detail. Razoulstroked his beard, what was happening? Even if it was to him again,he decided to teach Aladdin about this incident. Even if he did notlike him, Aladdin always managed to find the solutions to suchsituations.