They entered the hall only for everyone to look over at Aladdin. News had passed quickly through every nook and cranny of Sindria, earning quite a bit of attention now as everyone took the liberty to really notice the difference. All eyes seemed to press down upon the lot of them, making Aladdin move closer to Alibaba as they walked across the room. Up ahead she saw Sinbad waving for her to come sit next to him. Morgiana led her up to the king as Sharrkan grabbed a hold of his apprentice and yanked him along to where some women waited for them.

It was about halfway to their seats that Aladdin felt the other's eyes on her. Like a sudden rise of temperature, it was hard not to notice. Aladdin held Morgiana's hand a bit tighter as she glanced in his direction. Indeed, Judal was looking at her, watching her head towards the main table. There was a way that Judal seemed to look at her that made it seem like she was naked all over again.

Subconsciously, she pulled up the dress a bit, feeling those eyes on her.

That wasn't to say that no one else was looking, it was strange to see a boy one night and a girl the next, of course they were looking, but Judal's gaze was trapped in between Masrur and Drakkon, he seemed to have that presence to him making Aladdin shiver at the hungry look that the man shot her before he glanced over at Sinbad.

Aladdin hurried the pace a bit, taking a seat next to Sinbad and only sighing when Morgiana sat down on the other side of her. Things had gone from being exciting to being strange and awkward fast. She would be happy to have her own room and chance to enjoy the change once more. If anything, Sinbad didn't seem to mind the company that was staring at her. He loaded her plate and laughed loudly. "Try not to look too interested," he said quietly. "You'll encourage his bad behavior."

"Huh?"

Sinbad leaned a bit closer and murmured a bit more softly. "Judal was going to sit next to you before we pushed him to a seat down there. Don't give him eye contact or talk to him for now. You'll encourage him to touch you like he was doing earlier."

Aladdin looked over at Sinbad, taking a moment to try to understand what he meant before realization hit her. "Was he going to try to have sex with me?"

Even Ja'far was glancing over as Sinbad choked on his wine. The glass being quickly sat down before the man was covering his mouth. His hand reached for his napkin as his shoulders shook. Those eyes glinting in mirth as he looked over at Aladdin. "Yes, that was exactly what he was going to do."

Well that was helpful. Aladdin had been curious to know if that was what he had been doing. It had been very confusing. There was so many feelings that the other had made in her. She hadn't minded it terribly though. She leaned over again as Sinbad was eating and tugged for him to lean over again. "What happens if I do have sex with him?"

The king stared at her in surprise. "You want to?"

"I don't know." She shook her head before Sinbad leaned in and murmured quietly to her.

"Don't. I don't want him to have that over you. You want your first person to be someone who won't hurt you. Judal will take every advantage he can. That's why he wants me as his king candidate, that's why he wants you; he wants to have every kind of advantage he can get."

Aladdin nodded, but her gaze flickered over to Judal. Any idea of what he was doing was lost to her though as she found herself staring at what was coming directly from him. Black rukh, dancing, fluttering black rukh moved from where he was seated to where she was. The lot of them hovering around peacefully in what seemed like harmony with her own. She stared at them in surprise as they fluttered down to remain in front of her. "Sinbad," she looked over at him, wanting to get his opinion. This was something he should know about, but the other was already deep in a conversation with Pisti about something.

Her luck was the same as she turned the other way to speak to Morgiana. The woman was deep in conversation with Ja'far, gesturing towards his wires and learning a bit more about metal vessels and how they worked. Not even tugging at Morgiana seemed to capture her attention as she spoke to Ja'far and their conversation continued. Aladdin was on her lonesome for this one.

In the end, Aladdin looked back at the rukh before she began to eat quietly. She wasn't sure what the black rukh were trying to accomplish being over here with her. They were just unusually close and she was worried about hitting them when she was eating. The things moved around her closer than her own rukh, and they seemed to like fluttering around in between her and the two beside her.

She opted out of eating dessert as she pushed her chair back and excused herself. Probably the most foolish of mistakes on her part, since it was not like her to ever decline a good meal to its end. The others looked at her worriedly, Sinbad especially. The king looked around her to his adviser and seemed to feel more at ease as Ja'far stood up as well, declaring that he would escort Aladdin back to her room. First sharing a room when there were so many available and now this? It was so frustrating in the end, to have everyone doting on her like this. It was too much. She just wanted some alone time now. That was what was needed, a good amount of time to just relax and not think about all this. She wasn't any different besides a pair of boobs and a lack of penis. There weren't any new thoughts or ideas, well, besides some groping.

That was always going to be acceptable.

Ja'far seemed more than content to take her hand and begin to lead her from the room. Passed tables and guests, passed even Judal and Alibaba; she was led quickly out of the room and towards the bedrooms from whence Aladdin had come. Up a set of stairs and down another hallway. Through a large connecting room that held the path to many hallways and left to another hallway. Down that one to another, she followed him sourly. She knew the way to the bedrooms, even if she was sharing one with Morgiana.

Aladdin looked behind them and sighed as the black rukh followed after them. "Ja'far," she looked up at him and motioned behind them both. "We have company."

"What do you mean?"

"Black rukh." Aladdin motioned at the fluttering dark subjects. "They've been following us."

Ja'far sighed, pulling her a bit closer and shaking his head. The man seemed to look around more, his daggers glinting slightly from beneath his sleeves as though the magi would show up out of the blue now that Aladdin had mentioned the rukh. "Come on, you can sleep in my room tonight," Ja'far told her. "I don't trust leaving you alone."

"Ja'far," Aladdin shook his head. "I don't mind being alone. I need it."

"Aladdin-"

Instead of whining, she stared up at him. The frustration began to make itself apparent as tears sprang to her eyes. It felt... better, at least to let the frustration be apparent to someone. Aladdin shook her head. "I really just want to be alone for right now. It hasn't even been a day yet and everyone has been acting weird. Just for tonight... please."

The adviser shook his head. "I shouldn't leave you be. There are too many things that could happen."

"Just the room next to yours then, I just need to be a little bit alone."

Ja'far shut his eyes, holding his hand to his eyebrows as he thought. "Aladdin…"

"Please?"

The adviser began to slouch his shoulders, shaking his head before pulling Aladdin along. "For tonight you can have your own room, but if you see any more black rukh or feel any bit of danger, you come straight to my room next door or yell for me."

"Alright." Aladdin hugged the man as they walked. "Thank you."

Ja'far shook his head. "Just be careful please, don't go wandering around on your own for a while. I know this has to be hard for you though. Everyone needs time to adjust, including yourself." He smiled a little for Aladdin, squeezing her hand playfully, "Everyone will be alright soon enough. We're all good at adapting."

The girl nodded and together they headed towards the area for bedrooms. The hallways were smaller once they were away from the main hall, the torches that were set up against the wall made more shadows dance around the hallway than light. Ja'far didn't let her go an inch away from him until they were at the room next to his. Even opening the door for her, he looked inside a moment before motioning her in.

"What did I say for if you feel in danger," he asked as he led her to the middle of the room.

"To call you or run to you."

Ja'far hovered for a moment. The indecision and worry flickered through his gaze as he remained. There was a lot of variables, far too many for the other's liking, but he seemed to accept the inevitable, bending over and hugging her close. "Please don't hesitate to run over. I don't like this idea, but if you really, truly need this time..."

"Thank you."

He sighed, shaking his head and hugging her a bit more. She smiled over to him and hugged him back before pulling away, giving him a slight push towards the doorway just to get him going.

There was no choice for him. The other moved to the door and looked back a moment before leaving, the door shutting with a soft click.

And then there was freedom. She spun around a moment before falling back onto the bed, looking up at the high ceiling and grinning a bit. Her hands went to her chest again as she watched the white rukh flying around the ceiling. They seemed happy enough. She was pretty okay too. Everyone else though was acting completely out of character. It was mildly disturbing.

Maybe Ja'far was right, they needed time to adjust too.

Rolling over, Aladdin shut her eyes and buried her face into the pillows and blankets. When everyone went to sleep, she would go to get some more food. Maybe some of that chocolate that they had been bringing in when she had left the table; it had looked good.

Maybe she would just bring it all back with her and relax in bed for tomorrow. Even as the idea of lounging and eating came to mind, she quickly dismissed it. Yamuraiha would be ready to continue to train her. More than anything else, she wanted that time to train. She could still bring the food back, but maybe she could just lay around for the morning or for a little while. She lost herself in her own imaginings for what would happen tomorrow, to what she would grab first from the kitchens when everyone was in bed. There were many options.

Perhaps she should have paid a bit more attention to reality. A shadow slipped through the room and towards the bed. A hand slid up her waist, a body climbing over hers. Like a wave, the other seemed to wash over her. She could hardly jump in surprise before she felt those lips on her neck, pulling at her dress. "Chibi," the other's voice purred to her, "You look like you were thinking of me."

Blue eyes met crimson before the other was pulling her hand into his, kissing it gently. His eyes glinted with mirth, he stroked his thumb over her knuckles. "What are you doing in here," she could only ask. The door had been shut. She would have heard it had he come in that way. "How did you get in?"

"The window," Judal replied simply. "I did not get to finish what I started earlier."

"I don't want to have sex with you."

Judal shook his head and leaned a bit closer, pushing her down against the pillows and placing his hands over her breasts. "Do you honestly think I'm going to listen to the king's orders from your mouth? Besides," his tongue ran over the lobe of her ear before he nibbled on it softly. "you want this more than I do."

Aladdin shook her head. "I'm not going to."

"Then let me do all the work," he offered. "You saw my rukh protect you during dinner. You can have my protection and body if you just give me yours."

She shook her head, looking up at him. "Why do you want me now but not before?"

Judal ran his thumbs over her breasts, making her breath hitch. She arched her back, moaning softly as Judal played with her. It made no sense to her why he was doing this. What was he even doing in here? Her question didn't seem to have been heard though. Judal was preoccupied with other things. His hands were tracing, pressing down on one place only to stroke along another. She could feel him reach down between them, those golden bracers on his arms only serving to make her shiver as the other's heated touch moved across her body. She wanted to pull them off and toss them aside whenever they touched her.

"Judal, please…"

Judal leaned down, his lips hovering just over hers. "Tell me what I want to hear and I'm all yours, Chibi." His fingers stroked along her breasts, pushing them up to their fullest before his index fingers were sliding across her nipples. She could hardly breathe from the way he worked.

"I can't," she whined. "I shouldn't."

Judal's rukh fluttered closer, his eyes shimmering in the darkness. The moonlight flickering through the windows was the only light in the room. His voice was so smooth as he spoke, "don't be a fool, chibi." He slid his hands down her waist, pulling her dress down her person until it was to her knees. "You can feel your want, I'm offering myself to you with the only price being that you give yourself in return." His mouth bit down softly onto her shoulder as he touched that place.

That place was that wet place Aladdin had felt pooling with something earlier. It served only to make her arch into his touch, her mind begin to turn to fuzz. Nothing seemed to be able to function properly, not even her ability to breathe. All she could do was keep her arms wrapped around him tight, holding onto him as his fingers stroked to their liking.

"Just say you'll be mine and I will protect you and let you have me," he murmured from against her shoulder. "No one owns me, Chibi. No one has this kind of power over me and here I am, offering it to you."

When he said it like that... She felt a soft mental apology slip through her mind for Sinbad as she decided quickly enough. Aladdin shut her eyes, burying her face into his hair and nodding.

"Tell me you will," he murmured.

"If I can have you, then you can have me." She shut her eyes before they opened in shock. The other's finger pushed into her, making her shudder a moment before those lips were over hers. His mouth delved to the very depths of her mouth, kissing her deeply. His eyes were full of amusement, full of what looked like happiness, but that smirk was the same knowing evil looking one from before. She shut her eyes and began to make sounds as the other's finger moved about inside of her.

In and out, repeatedly; until she couldn't see straight; he kept going at it. His mouth moved along her person, never straying too far from her lips before he was back again, giving her another kiss that felt like she couldn't breathe around it. She didn't want to.

His kisses and gazes were far different from anything she had expected. Those fingers stroked along her person, the one inside of her moving in a calm manner, as though he were patient. But the rukh around them said otherwise. They swelled incessantly, spiraling around one another and falling to the sides of the bed as Judal thrust his finger into and out of her. As he touched along her body and marked it with his teeth. She felt the feeling of pleasure and pain along her person as he bit and sucked on her.

Then Judal pushed a second finger in, his eyes were darkening, spiraling in that crimson hue. His hair became unbound as the rukh descended lower. If he noticed, there was no sign of it.

Aladdin wrapped her arms around his shoulders and held on tight, moaning into his mouth, into his shoulder as he bit into one of hers.

"I won't wait forever Chibi," he told her in a huff, pushing her back to the bed and his hand moving out of her. He grabbed the waistband of his pants and pushed them down, Aladdin's gaze turning away before the man turned her head to face him. His grin was wider as he made her look. "This is what a man looks like." He moved in closer and kissed her breathless again. "You were supposed to be a girl all along."

She shivered as she felt him move forward, the magi pushing himself slowly to that place he had been thrusting his fingers into. Aladdin gripped his arms in anxiety before he was pushing himself in. The wetness enveloped him without a problem, like a shirt or a sheathe, he fit into her. Aladdin held onto him and winced at the pain though, but those lips returned and the rukh once more were around them, making her dizzy from it all.

Black and white fluttered around her as the other began to move inside her. She pulled her face away to kiss him back. Her eyes looking into his from under her eyelashes, she smiled to him and she felt him groan against her hands, his chest vibrating.

"Solomon, that face," he yanked her close and kissed her again. His movement quickening inside of her, he began to make sounds again, joined by her escaping gasps and murmurs. "You're so warm inside," he told her. "Damn."

Aladdin moved her hips and felt herself begin to suddenly clench down around him. Her eyes shut as she whimpered Judal's name. Everything just collapsing to her senses. She couldn't move, wanting to just cling to the other magi and ride him out. She felt a warmth flood through her before Judal was kissing her again. Over and over that tongue of his moved into her mouth, driving her mad. She couldn't stop herself from kissing him back, trying to get more. It felt like she had to have more. All she could do was make a loud whine as he moved away to pant and move.

He slid along her person, pressing down onto her as his face moved to rest between her breasts. His mouth latched onto one, sucking on it gently as he looked up at her. That flooding filled her beyond her limits, to the point where she feared that it would never end. Yet Judal's attention to her chest, the disarray that had been his once carefully braided hair, the way his face looked; it all distracted her from the feeling inside of her. Clearly he felt something too, opting against remaining at her chest. He pulled himself up to her face, his hands holding onto her shoulders as he kissed her again. His hands could only press her into the bed as he moved, rocking himself against her, moving deeper in and out, until she was crying out again and clenching, coming hard. He was good at holding out obviously. Even as she fell from that high, he seemed to be only just ending with his.

Aladdin held onto him and felt his penis leave her, the magi rolling next to her. She was panting hard as he moved. It had been so nice. The world seemed to revolve around them as she was tugged into his arms. His lips went to her shoulder, kissing it so innocently, as though he had just slipped into bed and not just drove her world to the very edge. "That wasn't so bad, was it," he murmured.

"The rukh look drunk," she stated quietly. "I think they felt too much of what we did."

He grinned, "Good, I hope the whole building heard you."

Aladdin cuddled closer to him, burying her face into his chest and enjoying his warmth. Yet those damn pieces of jewelry... She tugged at one of his bracers. "Take those off."

Judal shook his head. "Not a chance."

Aladdin looked up at him a moment before rolling away, "Then go, they're cold."

"Chibi, come here." He reached out only to let out a loud yelp, glaring as she bit down on his hand. He pulled his hand away before making a sound of bemusement, tugging at his bracers and setting them loudly on the nightstand nearby.

"The necklace too," Aladdin asked him, rolling back over towards the raven-haired magi. Her eyes were glued to the newly revealed skin, her hands running over the forearms quietly. Judal set his necklace on the nightstand and shook his head.

"Demanding minx."

"You're warmer this way," Aladdin cooed as she rolled into his arms and kissed his neck. "You look better without them."

"Go to sleep." Judal looked away from her, rolling his eyes. "You don't know what the hell you are talking about."

She shook her head, kissing him one more time before she settled in his arms. Her mind at peace as the magi stroked her hair. Everything was okay. Sinbad had been mistaken about everything. Sex with Judal hadn't been that bad. Actually, it had been wonderful.

She fell asleep against the dark magi, her eyes only opening one last time to watch the rukh relaxing above them.