The Sunken Palace: Jasmine’s Final Wish
She didn’t want freedom — she wanted eternity.
The last sultan of Agrabah commissioned a palace built on sand, its foundations carved with symbols of protection. But the sea rose higher each year, and the dunes shifted like waves.
Jasmine, growing older, prayed to the lamp one final time.
She didn’t wish for youth. She wished for permanence.
The next day, the entire palace was gone — swallowed by the sea without a trace.
In 1934, divers off the coast of Oman found a structure of gold buried beneath the seafloor. Inside were corridors lined with preserved carpets and a throne still occupied.
The queen’s body sat upright, her eyes open, skin shimmering like coral. The lamp rested in her lap, cracked down the middle, leaking seawater that glowed faintly blue.
When the divers tried to remove it, their suits malfunctioned — pressure spiking instantly to impossible levels.
Their final radio transmission:
“She smiled. And the water smiled back.”
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