Barely an hour later-

Yunan and Aladdin left the palace via a levitation spell that took them well beyond the palace walls and off into the distance where the town was before it set down and then vanished in a spectacular display of pale green light. Leaving the two magi to their own vices for the time being.

"Come, I want to show you your new home Aladdin." Yunan said as he gently grasped the teen's wrist in his hand and tugged her along behind him as he started walking. Figuring that the town market was the perfect place to explore and kill some time, that was exactly where Yunan led Aladdin.

The two of them spent about two hours checking out various wares that were for sale, some of the things that they had happened across Yunan had bought for Aladdin.

Like one of Sindia's traditional dresses for young girls. A white fur lined black cloak for winter. A few necklaces and earrings and some bangle bracelets to use as accessories for some of the clothing and stuff that she had already.

And then after purchasing a chest to place everything in and using a spell to send it all to the palace, he then turned his attention to lunch. Given the fact that he and Aladdin had had a little bit of a late start, due to her long nap and the bath and hair cut that he'd given her- he figured by the placement of the sun in the sky that it was far closer to lunch time than he had first thought.

"Aladdin," He called out for her as he turned around to look at her only to pause when he found her gone. The space that she had occupied only a short time ago was empty and void of his little Aladdin. "Oh no! No, no, no, no!" Yunan said aloud in a slightly panicked tone as he twisted his body this way and that just to see if he could catch a glimpse of her.

Sadly though, his efforts were for nothing.

Aladdin was simply gone.

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Kouen was walking through the market with his two brothers, Komui and Kouha, after having waited on Sinbad to come and greet him as was the custom for royals and dignitaries for well over four hours. Four very long, and frustrating hours! All of which had been for nothing since the damned blasted man never bothered to show.

So after it was determined that Sinbad and none of his general's were coming to greet him and his brothers, he had gone back to the ship for just long enough to change his attire to that of a commoner, and let his hair down and shaved since it made it easier to move among the masses when he wasn't calling so much attention to himself.

And once he finished, he met the both of his brother's on the dock and then the three of them left to make their way through the town to the palace.

Half way there, they were about to stop for lunch when Kouen saw several men corner a small girl about his younger brother's age. He was about to turn away and leave the girl to her fate, deciding that it was simply for the best- however before he could look away the ruhk around the girl began to go into a frenzy of sorts.

The glittering white turning into something akin to a funnel that surrounded the girl almost protectively as one of the men reached for her only to pull back with a yelp when her ruhk seemed to burn his hand.

Hearing the man yelp in pain a mere moment before the other two caught on that something had happened and began to shout and curse at the girl, Kouen had begun moving without realizing it and was almost at the girl's side when he drew the sword that acted as his household vessel from it's sheath and used it to cut off the arm of one man, who automatically dropped to the ground clutching his severed appendage before running another though and then reaching through the ruhk (somehow without sustaining injury) and wrapped an arm around the young girl and pulled her tightly to his side and held her there as he stared down the third man and growled out.

"Leave or die." The man looked from him to the girl and then seemed to consider his words for a moment before he turned and ran off, leaving the girl in Kouen's hands. To be perfectly honest she was probably safer with him and his two brothers anyways.

Though as he looked down at her somewhat dazed expression, he wondered idly if she was even aware of that fact as he very slowly released her and then flicked his sword to rid it of the blood before re sheathing it and then saying, "That was a very peculiar trick you just pulled on those three men."

The girl blinked at him but said nothing. Probably because she was in shock from seeing at least one man lose an arm and another killed before her very eyes. So he tried a different tactic.

"Where is your family girl? Have they no sense to allow you to wander off?"

It was then that he got a reaction, though it was small. "I-I don't have any family. I was with Mr. Yunan-"

Yunan? Kouen's sharp mind latched onto the name as he stared down at the girl wondering why she would have been in the company of the magi. She didn't seem like a king's candidate to him, but from the display of ruhk earlier he couldn't be for certain.

"Yunan was with you."

"Y-Yes. Until those three grabbed me."

"Then you did not come with them willingly?" He asked, causing her to bristle slightly at the question. Apparently she found the fact that he even had to ask her such a thing, insulting. But it couldn't be helped. He wanted to make sure that he had all of his information straight, just in case.

"Of course not! What do you take me for? I have some self respect you know! Besides, I know very well what happens to young girls like me when they are grabbed by people like those! I'm not stupid!" She practically shouted at him, he inwardly cringed and held his hands up, palms out in a placating gesture in the hopes that she would calm down.

"Forgive my assumption. I meant no disrespect. Nor did I mean to imply anything." He said before going on to say, "I have also met and befriended your Yunan, and I know well that he is rather absent minded. So until he manages to track you down, it would be safer for you to stay close to myself and my two brother's." He said as he indicated towards where his brothers were standing, watching the exchange.

"My name is Kouen, and those are my younger brothers Komui and Kouha. What is your name little one?"

"Alice...though everyone simply calls me Aladdin."

"I see. And do you live near here miss Aladdin?"

"I live in the palace," Aladdin said before going on to explain, "Yunan brought me here to live as Mr. Sinbad's ward or something. Or at least I think that's why I was brought here. I actually have no real memories beyond a few days prior."

Kouen's eyes widened a little bit at this information. If what the girl had just told him was true, then it would seem as if Sinbad was once again up to his old tricks and amassing powerful new people. And this time at the behest of Yunan no less.

Just what the hell was going on here anyways? He wondered as he took the girl by the hand and slowly tugged her along behind him as he stepped over the dead man and his friend who was still whining about the loss of his arm. He would have gotten the girl away from there as soon as he could, however before they could completely step back out into the open she managed to tug her hand free of his grasp and went and knelt down in front of the man that was still alive.

Alarmed by her behavior, Kouen moved to go and grab her when he saw her ruhk fluttering about her again and wondered what she was doing as she placed her hands on the injured man's stub of a limb and closed her eyes as his arm slowly regenerated itself.