"Hmmm, that doesn't feel right," Nolan mused to himself with a furrowed brow, causing Lorelie's heart to quake within her.
"Why do you say it doesn't feel right?" she asked him.
"I'm thinking if she ended up locked up, cold, and all alone—that can't be the end of it, right?"
"She has to eventually leave her cage, or she has to die in the cave. Something has to happen."
"Just being in the cave all cold and alone can't be the end of it," Nolan said with quite a bit of conviction and certainty.
A person's story never ends with them being in a place cold and alone.
Only two things can end it: either they find a way to break the cage they were held in, or they die within that cage.
And in the majority of cases, those choices are always available.
Only a prisoner can bring himself out of his prison, and if he or she doesn't wish to bring himself or herself out, then he or she will remain trapped in it forever!
