THIRTY
"Have you seen the palace that was here yesterday?" Aladdin asked. "It was here, but now it's gone." When the man shook his head, Aladdin tried another passerby. "Did you see anything here last night?"
People shook their heads and moved away from him, eyeing him suspiciously as they passed on the other side of the road.
Aladdin couldn't really blame them. After all, if he'd been confronted by a desperate man asking if he'd seen his palace, Aladdin might have thought him a madman, too. And it wasn't the palace he cared about as much as Maram. If Hasan had hurt her...he didn't know what he'd do.
He kept his head down as he ambled through the bazaar, not wanting to look at all the things he'd thought about buying for Maram.
"Aladdin? Is it really you?"
It took a moment for the
