she looks away in an attempt to not have to see how broken he is. he had always greeted her with a smile, with open arms... she remembers the days when he left with sinbad for travels and how she always ran to him first ( mostly to annoy her mother ) now she feels regret over such childish actions, she should have been more of a loving daughter, ask sinbad to play with her more and ignore the people who said ‘your mama is very busy now, go and ask masrur’.
maybe she shouldn’t have left for her adventures. if she had never met aladdin, perhaps nothing of this would have happened, maybe she’d sit here in this room now with her parents, all three dressed in sindrian clothes, laughing together.
when he speaks she frowns a little and her head suddenly turns to face him “hate... her? I thought... I’d never! I thought you’d hate me... or the part I played. for everything I did, I harmed her, you... Sindria, the company... I decided to be Balbadds princess but all Balbadd ever did was take and take away from me while you gave me so much and how did I repay it...?!”
suddenly the tears are there and she doesn’t feel like a grown woman anymore but rather like a little child. like during one of those nights when the nightmares of the slums haunted her and she ran to him or sinbad for comfort.
“I miss her --- ! I miss her so much, I miss Mama, and I miss you... I just want to come back here. I want it to be alright. I want you to be angry at her for teaching me a reckless move, or for allowing me to jump down the walls... I want Mama to try to make awful coffee for you... I am sorry Papa, I am sorry... but... I never hated her. or you. I just wanted us to be okay again.”