The harem slaves escape bid was doomed from the beginning.
The girls decision to disguise themselves as boys proved to be a poor cover - the palace guards admired pretty boys almost as much as they lusted after women. Only five minutes of the guards clumsy flirting revealed the truth, and their ardour evaporated instantly upon the realisation that the girls were actually escaping concubines from the Sultanโs harem.
The Sultan was furious, and he mercilessly declared that the Christian whores should die by their own Cross.
โLet them be eaten by flies at night and be roasted under the Sun by day!โ
And so it was, that the three sobbing slaves were taken into the desert where the sentence was ruthlessly carried out by his all too eager dungeon masters.