Wait! AHA! We never thought about the hottest possibility ever!
Look at this. If the Princess refuses both the options? What if she
chooses to just go off by herself? See, didn’t I tell you it was hot?
Just so with it! OK guys, let’s do it! First, draw a lo-oong vertical
line under ‘Princess’ – like this, see? Now.
OK, so what the options here? Hmm….mm…. now, this is a little
difficult…. Um hmm – you see, this one doesn’t seem to have
clear cut options….anything can happen, right? She might stand
on her own feet and get herself an identity, or she may get sold
at a brothel. Or… become a manual labour, go hungry, wash
utensils in people’s houses? Become the wife of a rickshaw puller
and get battered every day for the rest of her life. Or who knows,
she might just make a packet by selling her hair secret? Become
a hair festival consultant for other kingdoms? Or maybe become
a hobo? Or a witch? Be proud of her desperate step, or regret it?
It can happen, can’t it? All of it? Anything can happen – who is
there to stop her now? That’s the problem with getting uprooted
from your context – tidy endings become impossible.
Look, now I have had just enough of it. Let’s finish this quick. Just
draw a horizontal line at the bottom of the vertical line, and start
writing the options.
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