As the travelers approached the gate, they could see a similar army of apes standing before them, blocking their path out of the city. Prince Ahmad, who was in the lead, pulled his horse Churash to within a few cubits of the mob, but they would not part for him and some of the apes began snarling in defiance. The prince stopped and looked back at Jafar. “I think you’d best come up here, O king, and have a word with your subjects.”
Jafar rode to the front of the procession and affected his most imperious manner. “Clear a path for your sovereign, that I may go out the gate,” he said.
The apes in front of him merely bared their teeth and snarled. A few of the ones in the back waved their claws in the air in threatening gestures.
“Maybe they’re afraid I’m trying to steal their crown,” Jafar
