Chapter 39
'And the orphan girl was adopted by the King and Queen, and that was how she became a princess! She asked the King and Queen to take her grandmother to live with her in the palace, and they were more than happy to grant her request. She and her grandmother lived happily ever after in the palace.'
The children clap their hands after hearing Jane's story. This particular fairy tale is the one that she had once told other children on an impromptu storytelling session in a faraway village.
Five years later, she’s still telling it to the kids from the orphanage.
She sighs. 'Five years? Has it been that long?'
Maybe when life throws you in difficult situations, you no longer care about the years. You only care about surviving one day at a time.
The kids are called for sn
