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=The Lady or the Tiger?=

 Then she quickly made a motion with her right hand. The man stepped without hesitation to the door on the right. He had two thoughts going through his mind a wild, vicious, hungry, orange and blacked striped tiger, or a beautiful lady waiting for her “Prince Charming” to open the door and take her into his arms.

As the man was placing his hand on the doorknob, through the dead silence, he turned to look at the princess. She was smiling that most beautiful smile that she used to catch his eye the first time she noticed him. There was something different about it though, and as he turned to look at the king he saw a complete, barbaric resemblance. Like they were waiting for the same result, a result he himself didn’t want to imagine.

He started to distrust the princess and took one step back from the door to think about it, looking back up at the princess with a slight frown on her face. This obviously made the king mad and it was pressuring the man in the “King’s Arena”. The audience made up mostly of adults and coworkers of the king, were itching to see what the lover’s fate would be. He put his hand on the left door and then looked to see the princess’ expression.

Now she looked very cross and even had her arms folded in such a way that you might think she was jealous. He took another step backward and a few whispers from the crowd broke the silence as the king stood up and stared straight at him in the arena. It was now or never because the king might just have the guards open a random door and decide his fate for him. He had lost complete trust for the one he thought he had loved.

He stepped in front of the left door and put his hand on the doorknob one last time. Slowly he turned it to the left using only his wrist, while the rest of his body remained dead still. In an instant he swung the door open and it crashed against the wall. She was beautiful. Her hair perfectly combed, with her teeth and her eyes glistening in the sudden brightness of the arena. She had obviously been waiting quite a while. In a split second he was on his back and she was slashing his arms and face with the razor sharp claws. The last thing he saw was the princess in the distance crying, her eyes covered.