Another World

Chapter 20

Chapter20

"Have you thought about the new magic words?"Cassim asked me. "Yes, I have, after all, I had more than enoughtime." "Do you want to tell me?" "Yes, and Ithought, they will now Achad, Shtaim, Shalosh." Cassim stoppedshort and thought about the new words. "Yes, that sounds good.Nobody will come that fast. "

The switch to open theadditional secret door found we fast. Now it went down the pathagain. Unlike before, the road did not seem so long for me, so it wasprobably because I was here before. "I've spent years in thissecret hiding place, and I've never discovered this secret passage..." Cassim raised the torch he had brought higher to betterexamine the passage. Couple of minutes later we reached the room withthe old scrolls and the Sphere.

Carefully,I approached the Sphere. Immediately after I touched you, the spiritappeared. "Did you come now to change the magic words?""Yes i will." I told him the new magic words, the ghostnodded and a radiance emanated from the sphere. It filled the entireroom and seemed to illuminate the entire robber's den through thewalls. As soon as the strange light came, it disappeared again. "Thewords are now changed, this place is safe again." With thissentence, the spirit raised its hands and wanted to disappear."Wait!" I called, the ghost stopped and looked at me. "Whatis there mortal?" "You said that there is a prophecy thatsays how I come back to my world?" Slowly, the ghost shook itshead and broke up, leaving me unknowing as before.

"Atleast I thought he knew what to do with me ..." tears arise inmy eyes involuntarily, but I suppressed them and wiped my eyes withthe backs of my hands. No, that does not help. "Do not worry,we'll find another oracle!" Cassim tried to comfort me. "Yeah,I think we can do it." "Let's go back." I nodded andfollowed Cassim back to the other thieves, who were already waitingtensely for us.

According to Cassim, the new magic words wereannounced. An approving cheer sounded. "But what about her?"One of the thieves stepped out and pointed to me. "Do we keepthem here or do we just let them go?" I frightened at these words.There came already the next objections and suggestions. "Shecould betray us!" "Then everything would be in uselessagain." "We should lock her up." Many of the thieveslooked at me suspiciously. "ENOUGH!" Cassim interrupted theconfusion in a loud voice. "She will not reveal anything, afterall, she will not come into her world without our help! We candefinitely trust her."

"That'sright." Astonished, I turned around, Hakim stepped forward andnow put a good word for me. He was joined by the other thieves Iknow. The objections fell silent. Even though the trust between themhad a crack, they tried to rebuild it. An inner voice told me theycan do it with Cassim's help. In spite of all, the forty thieves werereleased and lived a safe hiding place again. But now Cassim raisedhis arms and announced that they would celebrate their regainedfreedom. A loud, approving grumble erupted among the thieves. Fromthe nearby closets various drinks were brought, in addition some foodwas distributed on the tables. Actually, I wanted to ask Cassim whenhe would bring me and carpet back to Agrabah, but I had no chance,Cassim was surrounded by some thieves who wanted to clinkglasses with him.An unidentified Thief pulled me to one of the tables and put a cup ofwine in my hand. Opposite me sat Hakim, Genghis, Shun and thetriplets. How gladly I wanted to disappear again, but the robber whohad brought me here, nudged my mug. The others did the same. In amoment the robbers emptied some cups and fell into theirconversations, which I only partially followed. I got up and lookedfor Cassim, faster than I thought I found him. "Cassim, when areyou taking me back to Aladdin?" "Just rest, Monika, let'sjust wait for tomorrow, we do not want run into Razoul, do we?"He was right. "I'll bring you back tomorrow night." Withthat, he turned to the other thieves.

Isat back down to the thieves. I could not think of anything better.So I drank some cups of wine and listened to their conversations. Atsome point I was little drunk. I started an attempt to get up andtotter to one of the tents, but fell back onto the chair. "Comeand bring you to your tent." I heard someone say and took myhand. I followed him calmly. As soon as I drink a lot I do not noticeanything of my environment anymore. So I did not realize that Ialready lay on some pillows without knowing how I got there. Just aslittle did I not get along, the carpet covered me and lay down nextto me. But most of all, I did not notice how one hand brushed my hairout of my face and stroked my head. I heard a whisper in my ear, butwhat it said, or who, I did not really register, because I was moreor less in a deep sleep again.

Iwoke up with quite a headache. Stupid wine. I had no idea what timeit was. But apparently I kept the sleeping record. Because all thethieves were on their feet and looked not so bad as I felt rightnow.
"Finally awake?" I turned and saw Cassim. "Howlong have I slept?" I yawned, stretching myself. "Longenough, it's already afternoon. Take a look around here ..... orrefresh yourself a bit, there's water and a mirror down there ... "I looked even worse than I thought. If Cassim already offered me torefresh myself ...

After recovering to some extent, Ihopefully explored the cave for the last time. Carpet made mecompany. So the time passed really fast. Unfortunately, I could notfigure out how the robbers always knew what time of day was rightnow, despite the dark, only torch-lit cave, which suddenly Cassimstood before me "It's time." I said goodbye to my thieves.Hoping to see them again someday. Shun looked at my farewell justlaying aside. I could not think of it and there was no time forquestions. Cassim saddled one of the horses and we left and headedback to Agrabah.

"Youshould have seen Razoul, how he had raged when he realized that theold magic words did not work anymore," Cassim told me, I waslying on carpet again and did not listen properly, but looked up intothe sky and hoped to the stars again, but the sky was full of clouds.Arriving at the palace, we immediately met Genie, who brought us, asa butler, to Aladdin and Jasmine.

"I've been researchsome books and parchments in our library to find out about theoracles, but I have found nothing." Jasmin started theconversation. Aladdin nodded, he too had rummaged in the books. "Itlooks like you will stay here for a while," he concluded.Somehow I could already imagine that. "Do not worry, we'll finda new oracle already," cried Genie and turned into SherlockHolmes. "A trace will certainly arise." He looked throughan oversized magnifying glass and looked me in the face. I couldhardly resist a laugh.

"Father, do you have a solution tostop thieves from robbing them first?" Aladdin asked his father."Yes, I have them. We will recover the gilded ship in my formersecret room. With the gold I can satisfy them for the time being andwith that we should also be able to buy information about theremaining oracles, if necessary. "Aladdin seemed pleased. .

NowI could only hope that the thieves found out something. "For thetime being you will get an apartment near the palace. That's the bestway to get to know our world and maybe settle in." Aladdin toldme. I liked the idea of ​​having my own flat, but at the sametime it worried me how long I would stay here. But I did not want tothink about that at first, but just let things come to me. I'mtrapped in Aladdin's world and I'll have to get along here.

Inthe morning, Jasmine showed me my temporary apartment. She hadalready set it up completely. The pantry was full of food and drink.And in my bedroom there were some clothes to change, including mynormal things. She quickly showed me all this, as she was expectinganother important meeting with Aladdin and a king from anothercountry and had to prepare a lot for it. She left me behind with thewords "See you". This seems to be a new beginning for me ina strange world, but for this story it is the END for now.