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Houssain, your magic carpet carried I cannot possibly make a choice as
you to Princess Nouronnihar in her you are still matched so equally.”
moment of need. But you would
never have used it if it had not been The princes looked downhearted, but
for Prince Ali’s looking-glass and it they had no choice but to agree.
would have been no help without “You may not have won the princess’s
Prince Ahmed’s apple.” hand,” said the sultan, “but you have
learnt how to work as a team. I hope
He paused to scratch his beard.
“Likewise, Prince Ali, your looking- this lesson is reward enough for you.”
glass alerted you to the princess’s From that day forward, the brothers
illness, but it did not help you reach stopped fighting over the princess
her swiftly or cure her. Finally, Prince and worked together to use the magic
Ahmed, your apple may have saved carpet, amazing looking-glass and
the princess, but if you hadn’t used healing apple for good.
the looking-glass to see she was in
trouble and the magic carpet, you
wouldn’t have reached her in time.
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