Book 4 - Schemer of the Scalding Sands: Chapter 13; Sands Getting Hotter

The screen turned on as the chapter title plays "Chapter - 13; Sands Getting Hotter".

Similarly to what happened the last time she had to stay outside of her dorm while being involved in a new unfamiliar dorm. Once asleep she felt herself go out of her body and into a much more ghostly form before getting dragged over to Ramshackle by some unknown force or rather to that mirror in their room in Ramshackle dorm.

The mirror then instigated another one of those dream sequences, now dragging her into the mirror as it swirled and glowed.

It shows what looks to be a rather fancy palace as she also thinks 'What a fancy palace this is…' as she was able to wander a little bit until she happened upon what looked to be a throne room of sorts. A king or sultan sat on the throne as he said "But I thought the law says that only a prince can marry a princess. I'm quite sure…" Jafar then pops further up as he holds his snake staff up to the sultan as he tells the sultan "Desperate times call for desperate measures, my lord." His snake staff's eyes then start to glow a hypnotizing red glow which the sultan's eyes quickly followed as Jafar stated "The princess will marry me." The sultan started to repeat what Jafar had stated "The princess will marry…" But he breaks out of it as loud music starts to be heard playing from outside while shouting "What? What is that? That music!" It's then paned out into the streets where a large crowd of people are standing and watching a growing parade. One person or man is even singing "Step aside for Prince Ali!~ Here he comes, for all to see!~ The shining jewel of this marvelous procession~ Ali Ababwa himself, the living legend!~"

Yuu is then taken out of the mirror and dragged back to her body as she mutters the questions "A sultan and a grand vizier? A parade through the desert?"

She then blinks her eyes open to see the vacant room her and Grim were unceremoniously shoved into. Now being day she was finally able to see and assess the room.

It's rather basic with there really only being three prominent pieces of furniture. One being the bed that was pushed into the corner, and the second being a dresser against the wall next to the short side of the bed. Then lastly against the longer side of the bed was a complicated piece of woodwork. As it was nearly as long as the bed itself with cubby spaces and open areas in places that are unexpected alongside the two tiny drawers at the bottom the entire piece was very strange. Then the window was up and off to the left side a little to the woodwork piece.

Yuu then heard some mumbling as she looked down towards her chest to see Grim sleeping there. He was complaining about something in his dream while sleep-talking "Mrah… I don't want any more of your moldy crackers… Myah…"

She then looked up to the door across the room as she heard the locks and possibly even chains being removed before the door was opened revealing a student sent to get them.

She glares as he shouted at the two, him being the one who had rather roughly pushed them to the ground last night, "How long are you two going to sleep? On your feet, now!"

Grim is shocked by the sudden loud noise and shoots up while shouting "Mrow?! What now?!"

Grim then looked towards the window, only to see how little the sun's risen as he complained to the student "Wait, it's only 6 a.m."

The student then announces "We're marching ten kilometers to the eastern oasis!"

This only makes Grim complain even more though "You expect us to trudge that far through sand that's hard to walk on as it is? Why should we?"

The student then grabs Grim by the ear as he starts to drag at least him out while shouting "Because the housewarden said so. Now stop whining and come on!" Grim tries to fight him off as he shouts "Myaaah! I don't wanna! Get your paws off'a me!"

The duo are still forced out of the room eventually, although with Yuu being given the opportunity to change into a spare dorm outfit for the day as she didn't exactly bring any spares with her.

When the duo arrive in the outside area of the dorm they see all of the students lined up with Kalim standing atop an elephant before they soon after start marching.

The screen then fades to black as "To be continued" plays before fully turning off.