She Was Never Truly Running Away Andriana Low ’25
Some believe the world is split into good and bad, light and dark, villains and heroes. Death knew better than that. Once he came across three young women. Three very special women. The three women had joined together on their journey to escape. What it was they needed to escape Death had never figured out, but he knew of their past and ambitions for the future. The first had been held back her whole life and was willing to do whatever was necessary to get free. The second was spoiled and was neither ready to give her spoils up nor work to keep her privilege. The last was a girl that had already accepted her past, the echoes of her burden in her mind, the scars that will forever remind her of what she has endured. When Death came across the three he was ready to take them for his own, claim them as he did with all souls. They had other plans, minds set on getting their fresh start. Being the first to ever stand up to
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Death he decided to grant them each a wish of their choosing. The first spoke up immediately after hearing the offer. Asking for power, her wish was to be feared. No one would go against her power. Death granted this by giving her the throne and crown of her new nation. The second girl seeing the fortune she could so easily gain stepped forward next. She asked for a bag from which she could grab whatever riches she desired. Death granted her wish, creating her an endless bag from which whatever wealth she wanted would be within her grasp. It took much longer for the last lady to step forward. Her only wish was to be able to escape, to travel to the lands she could only read about. Death also took longer when considering this wish. Eventually, he gave the last woman a book made of the oldest tree. The book would grant her the power to get to the lands she imagined, to be with the
