The Lady Or The Tiger Short Story

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The lady or the tiger After opening the door, he walked slowly backwards and made a quick look to the princess. His eyes were full of tears; he shook his head slowly still looking at the princess. The barbaric princess looked at him and said “I’m so sorry” in a whisper. She started crying. The young man felt embarrassed, angry, scared and deceived, but now everything was too late. The tiger came out and the whole arena looked at the princess, then back at the young man, and again at the princess. Everybody was shocked when they heard the hungry tiger growling and looked at the young man more focused than ever. The hungry tiger came slowly out of the wooden door and looked elegant, handsome, angry, and hungry at the same time. The princess But the young man had other problems and needed to focus on them. The tiger was hungrier than ever and jumped with all his weight on the young man. But the young man got up again and chose to face the tiger and fight him, so he can show the king that he was brave enough for his barbaric and loved daughter. The young man took one of the fire scepters from the edges of the arena and starts defending himself. But the fire fell on the floor. At the beginning it burned one little spot. But then, the cool autumn wind helped the fire spread itself out and it made a huge fire line across the arena. The spectators looked concerned and some of them cried in choirs: “Haaaahhhh!” Others also got up to have a better view of what was happening. Meanwhile the princess calmed herself down and got back to the arena. She was shocked again when she saw what was going on and wanted to help the young man so badly. Slowly tears came out of her big shiny blue eyes and she looked even more concerned than the spectators. She sat down on her royal looking chair next to her father and watched it with her eyes full of water again. The fire made a wide, deep hole in the ground, that was way too big to jump over. But, the young man was lucky the tiger was on the

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