A Tale of Two Sorcerers, Sinister Cutlass [the unexpected everything txt] 📗

check under the stairs again, the girl lost her patience and called "'Ahmed!" from the second floor gallery. Hamed looked up to see the girl clambering over the railing and taking hold of the side of the carpet. 

 

The merchant, who had come in to see what the children were up to, unfortunately saw this as well.

 

He stood, horror-stricken, as the girl leaped.

 

Mayyadah gave a gleeful cry, and her weight jerked the whole carpet over the railing. 

 

She landed in a pile of smaller rugs, the large one tumbling in huge folds over her. Hamed giggled uncontrollably as the merchant gaped.

 

Finally, the man strode over and rolled back the rug to reveal an exuberantly proud, and panting girl. He gave her a withering look, and pointed to the front of his shop.

 

"Take your game outside," he ordered.

 

Mayyadah and Hamed bashfully wandered back out into the street. She snuck a small smile at him.

 

The girl craned her neck, and she saw her mother with Jafar and Hamed's mother gathering vegetables.

 

"C'mon," she said, and Hamed followed her under the arch of the footbridge, deeper into the marketplace.

 

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Publication Date: 09-01-2015

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