You understand why you must go through with this marriage.”<br />“You say you couldn’t live with yourself if anything happened to Caspida. Yet you ask me to live with myself, knowing I sentenced you to this!” He holds up the lamp. “What’s the difference?”<br />I look away angrily. “The difference is that this is my choice, Aladdin.”<br />“Well, it’s a stupid choice!”<br />I stand up. “Promise me you’ll go through with it.”<br />He shuts his eyes.<br />“Promise me! Please!”<br />He opens his eyes then, and they are filled with pain. But he nods.<br />“I have to hear you say it.”<br />“I promise.