Ali could not help but laugh a little when she called him rude.  He had never cared on bit what other people thought of him and he wash't going to start now.  "If you had to  endure what I have had to endure you would act the same way."  Ali spat<br/><br/>Ali sat there listening to the woman talk and he had to admit it to himself if not out loud to her that she was very much like he used to be before he became full of rage and hate.  He always loved to read and was always thirsting for the knowledge and he mother would roll her eyes at him every time he asked a question over and over again.  But she was still sweet and answered it anyway.<br/><br/>Ali sighed and looked at the woman and did something he had never done before, "Mistress Manon I am sorry you are correct there is nothing wrong with wanted knowledge.  I know when I was growing up I always did."  Ali sighed.  "To be honest I don't see much outside of the bottle and my master's house so outside of genie's and witches I have no clue what else is out there."<br/><br/>Ali had to admit to himself that she was being very polite and he was being a jerk.  He was royalty and she deserved better than his hatred for the world. He knew how to be a gentleman.<br/><br/>"If you really want to know about me, my name is Prince Ali Rand."  Ali sighed "I was King of my Kingdom for about one week until the woman I married went crazy and put me in a bottle where I was forced to watch her destroy my family and my kingdom."  Ali sighed again and still did look at his mistress.  "So I have been forced to put up with everyone's wishes and I choose to get them done so I can go back into my own personal hell."<br/><br/>Ali snapped his fingers and a glass of whiskey appeared in his hand and he swallowed it down, "I haven't been worth anyone's time in a long time.  Why should I care about people when they don't care about me?"