....as planned, it took several weeks for the Slug King's messenger to reach her friends and guide them to his subterranean realm. All the while, Jasmine continued to feast on the moss, for lack of anything else to do. The rest was quite predictable, the King thought -- after all, he was once a human, so long ago, before being transformed himself.
By the time Aladdin and the Genie found her again, she had been utterly changed. At this point, returning to her old life on the arid surface was not really in the cards.
At last, the Slug King had a fitting Queen.