Cassandra

As The Reader Sees

“So does Cassandra escape and get to be with her beloved someday?” the young girl asked her grandmother, hopefully.

“Well, I know we would want her to be able to, wouldn’t we?”

The girl nodded, earnestly.

“But we must remember,” her grandmother cautioned, “she has been enslaved for a very long time, and in those kinds of circumstances, there are very harsh realities…”

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