Princess Lucinda Alternate Ending

"Are the voices real or I am dreaming," thought the Princess Lucinda that just awoke from her sleep and therefore she was not yet fully aware of her surroundings. She heard people on the upper deck talking enthusiastically. She was dubious if she was dreaming, or if the sounds were real. The voices were faint, she couldn't comprehend everything they were saying, but she was certain with respect to the subject of their discussion. The captain had mentioned that they were to land early this morning. “Obviously the discussions on the upper deck in regards to the landfall today,This is the reason that all the other passengers awake so early.”

The ship was swaying an endless sway with the waves. A movement which she felt constantly, yet at last she becomes accustomed to it following three weeks of traveling. The first days of the journey were troublesome and it was exceptionally hard to get accustomed to the travel conditions. You can understand this if you take into account the great difference between the life of a princess who lives in a palace and that of a peasant who travels on a ship. Furthermore, she was a princess traveling under a false identity disguised as a young lad and the consequences of discovering this secret would be a catastrophe.

Stretching up in the hammock where she slept, Lucinda prepared to jump down to start her day. Climbing a hammock and getting off it isn't
“As long as I will hold tight, I will not fall into the water,” she thought, and indeed, in less than a minute, the smiling faces of her fellow travelers waving to her from the railing proved that there was nothing to fear. Waving back and thinking: 'If they ever find out their best friend Larry is a woman and a princess they wouldn't believe it. Oh, I wish I could tell my friends the truth, at least tell Frank.