Walking out past the guards who trusted her to return, she climbed up to the cliffs overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, feeling the blowing breeze gentle-flapping her robes and tugging at strands of her tied-back hair.
As she reached the cliff tops, it almost felt as if she could fly away were she to just open her arms wide and lean forward a little bit more to capture the lift streaming up from the beaches below.
Stepping forward closer to the cliff’s edge, she closed her eyes and sensed for where the updraft would catch her.
Suddenly, a far off voice called out “Don’t do it, Cassandra!”
Startled, she jumped back, abruptly returned to her wretched reality.
Looking around her, she found no one there.
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