A little while after the meeting, Aladdin found herself inside the large room that served as Sinbad's treasury along with Alibaba, Ja-far, Hinahoho and Sinbad, all of whom were helping her search for pieces among the countless piles and chests of gold, precious gems and silver.
And so far she had found a delicate white pearl bracelet and something that could serve as a crown. In some ways, the design was much like that of an actual torc, however the width of the intricately woven and twisted metal looked more suited as a head piece.
Looking it over with a critical eye, Aladdin found that she rather liked the scroll design of it, along with the little diamonds and seed pearls embedded in the metal. However what she liked the most was the focal point of the piece, a tear drop shaped deep blue sapphire about the size of her finger tip dangled from a small, thin loop so that it would hang just above her eyebrows if worn.
Satisfied with the pearl bracelet and the headpiece, she set them aside on a small piece of clothe for later and then began to search through the treasury again. Pausing every now and then when someone called out to her and held out or up a piece that they thought might work well as a power limiter.
Sinbad found four torcs all of which were solid gold with gems imbedded within them. Hinahoho found two. Ja-far found one possible limiter, and Alibaba...well, she wasn't entirely sure if he realized just how serious this matter was to her? He kept skipping over with the weirdest stuff.
All of which could mostly be used as weapons. And while that was all well and good if she had been a soldier or something, she sort of didn't need them. Besides, how would it look to others if a magi carried weapons that killed? She wondered as she waved him off and sent him in the direction of one chest in particular so that he could find the earrings that she needed.
Instead of simply looking through it and choosing several pairs- he brought her the whole damn chest and left it at her feet with a happy grin before bounding off to search some more weird stuff out. Leaving her standing there wondering what the hell she was to do with an entire chest of things?
Finally after what felt like far longer than it actually was, Aladdin called off the search for items that could be used as power limiters and stood over the chests that Alibaba had brought her looking a mite...pissed since she would be spending the next week or so going through the stupid thing and picking out the items left that she required.
After Hinahoho had been kind enough to carry the heavier things for her to her room, she then excused herself from everyone's presence to get some work done and then shut herself up in her room and systematically began to look through the chest that Alibaba had given to her- despite the fact that Sinbad had been watching the entire exchange with a funny look on his handsome face- and somehow managed to find seven pairs of earrings.
Some were delicate, dangles that if worn would hang from her lobes in a beautiful display of gold. She had a pair of really, really small hoops picked out, and the rest were studs.
Sighing because she knew that she'd have to pierce her ears in various places just to wear them, she thought of how painful that was going to be and groaned before flinging herself face down on her bed.
She wasn't terribly sure how long she lay like that.
An hour? Two? Maybe more. But sometime between flinging herself down on her bed and simply laying there, she must have dozed off. Because one moment she was internally moaning and groaning about things and the next- she was being shaken awake by Sinbad.
Rolling over slightly, she gave the king a slight glare, not in the least happy about being woken up. Especially since the position she had fallen asleep in had caused a crick in her neck that was hurting and kind of burned like fire. "Mr. Sinbad? What-"
"Sorry to wake you like this, but I just wanted to check on you and see if you needed anything since you missed lunch and it is close to dinner time."
"Something small to eat would be fine... Why are you standing? Don't you know I have a crick in my neck and your tall height hurts my neck?!" Aladdin growled out as she none too nicely reached out and grabbed a strand of his long dark purple hair and pulled on it until he had no choice but to drop to his knees to avoid having his spine snapped in half by the odd angle she was attempting to bend him in.
Once on his knees, Aladdin abruptly released his hair and then placed her hands on his face and looked at him. "Sorry, but the crick really was hurting me." Sinbad merely nodded his head as he bit the inside of his cheek to keep from laughing.
"Did you manage to find some more items to work as limiters?" He finally asked after a heartbeat or so. Aladdin started to nod her head, but stiffened and yelped- her hand flying up to her nape to try and do something about the protesting muscle there.
"Yeah. I looked through it earlier and found some earrings that I think will work." She said as she slowly dropped her small hands away from his face.
"I see... Aladdin, there is something that I wanted to speak to you about earlier- will you allow me to now? Or would you maybe like to join me for dinner and speak about it?"
She blinked at him for a moment, unsure of what else needed to be said, however figured that he must have some lingering concerns from the meeting earlier that day and so she nodded her head. Sinbad gave her a brilliant smile and quickly jumped to his feet as he quickly said, "Wonderful! I'll send Yam and Pitsi to help you bathe and dress!" And then left the room and Aladdin in total shock.
