The Golden Arrow [ONC 2022]

A sorcerer, a genie, and an outlaw - three individuals pulled together by fate through a winding tale of magic, curses, and arrows.

Jafar is in search of power. As a sorcerer with the world at his fingertips, there isn't much that Jafar wants for in life but when a long-lost relic from his past emerges once more, he will stop at nothing until it's back in his hands.

Karim is in search of freedom. As a genie who has been cursed as a slave to man, granting three wishes to each of his masters for over a thousand years, it's been a long time since Karim has been able to make choices for himself. But all that is set to change when he meets one legendary outlaw.

Robin Hood is in search of a way back home to Sherwood. As an outlaw and a thief, Robin is no stranger to sticky situations but when a robbery gone wrong landed him in a foreign realm a long way away from the forest he knows and loves, he's desperate for any way to get home. When a sorcerer hires Robin to retrieve a cursed oil lamp, the legendary outlaw has no choice but to accept or risk never returning home to Sherwood ever again.

Three men whose lives have been long fated to intertwine collide in this epic fairytale retelling.

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An ONC 2022 submission with prompt #43: click your heels together three times and say "there's no place like home". You did just that. But where you found yourself next...it was most definitely not home