Free Will: A Short Story

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'Oh my God' she thought, 'I did it, I'm here, I can control my fate.' The next moment she thought of her mother the queen and her father the king who under those circumstances worried about her. "Are they worried?" she asked herself, have an image in her mind of the two of them are sitting in silence and worrying about her, with no idea where she was and what was happening with her and whether she was safe. "I had no choice," she thought pushing aside the guilt that had begun to creep into her mind because she remembered the fate that would have been waiting for her, if she had stayed in the castle, her home. An hour later, she watched the aristocrats leave the ship, and now it was time for the commoners that were on board, and Lucinda

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