So this goes on for a long time - some stories say one thousand days, but that's probably hyperbole. And finally, the guy carrying out the sultan's orders, the Grand Vizer is getting nervous. Because it doesn't look like the sultan is snapping out of it, he just gets more angry and bitter each time, and the kingdom is running out of beautiful virgins. In fact, he's getting down to the wire, and soon all he'll have left are his own two beautiful daughters, Scheherazade and the younger sister whose name started with a "D."

And he's weeping into his hands at dinner, pouring out his heart to his daughters, because how can he sacrifice them to the sultan's appetite for revenge, when Scheherazade volunteers to go to the king.