To Fly, To Be Free

My name is Lisa. I turned ten years old a couple of months ago.

On my tenth birthday, my father asked me, "What do you want to do when you grow up?"

But I couldn't give him a proper answer. I had many dreams, and I wanted to achieve all of them. I wanted to be a scholar, I wanted to be a magician, I wanted to be a singer....

I wanted to do many things. I wanted to live my life to the fullest. And so my father managed to get me admitted into an academy in the nearest city.

I was so happy.

I finally found a path to achieve my dreams.

However, good things do not last long. One day, I heard my village was raided by bandits.

I hurriedly left for my village in a carriage. But when disaster strikes, it comes in pairs.

My carriage was captured by bandits too.

Most of the people in the carriage were killed. I and a few other girls were captured, then sold to a mean-looking person.

We all knew what fate was awaiting us.

One by one, we were sold off.

Was my fate better or worse than the others?

I don't know.

But these definitely were the cruelest few months of my life.

The monster who purchased me did many many despicable things to me. I wanted to escape, but I couldn't.

I was scared and hurt. I thought this is it. The end of the road. I am going to die here.

But one day...

Something incredible happened.

The monster who had hurt me for so long had vanished.

Once I woke up, I saw a cute little girl helping me instead.

She had bright shiny green eyes.

Her silver-white hair was so beautiful! I was envious.

She did something, and all of the places my places that hurt simply got fixed! Also, my skin became soft and smooth!

I even felt my heart got much calmer and I felt confident!

Was that some kind of extraordinary magic?

It has to be!

Everything that happened these past few months felt nothing more than a bad dream.

She was very nice to me and brought me to a nice place that had many others like me. They were also very happy to get away from the bad guys.

The place we stayed at, had really nice and comfy beds, baths..... and weird-looking toilets. Even delicious foods appeared out of thin air! But I know she was the one who had sent all these.

But the place was quite weird. The entire place was white and didn't seem to have any windows. And we couldn't reach the end of the room no matter how long we walked.

It felt as if we were in a magical place!

But enough of that, Most importantly,

I'm very grateful to her for saving me.

Even though she hasn't told me her name yet, I'll definitely ask her next time!

Even though she is smaller than me, she is very confident in herself. And looking at her, I finally realized what my actual dream was....

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So, father.... if you're looking at me from the stars....

I just want to tell you, I found out what my dream is...

I want to fly... I want to be free.

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"Hey Jenna, What are you doing?"

"Oh, it's you. I'm trying to dig the ground. We're all barefooted but the ground feels very soft and a little warm. There should be something underneath it."

"There could be. This place is very magical."

"That's right. Even food appears from thin air. But Lisa, you seem to know a bit about what's going on. But you're not saying anything." Jenna chided her lightly.

"Um, I don't really know much. The person who saved me was a cute little girl. She had sent me here. I don't know anything else..." Lisa told Jenna.

"Oh." Jenna tried to dig into the ground again.

As Lisa turned around, she was stunned. Because she saw a girl in front of her.

It was that girl.

The one who magically saved her.

She was looking at her with big eyes.

Lisa didn't know what to do.

"Hello... um... can I... can I know your name?" Lisa nervously asked. Though she was quite excited in her mind.

"I'm Stella. Nice to meet you." She softly replied as she glanced at the girl next to her.

"What is she doing?"

"Oh, she is trying to dig the ground to find what's underneath." Lisa replied with suppressed excitement.

".... Right... people sure have curious minds."

Stella sighed, then looked at Lisa, "Leave her be. Come with me."

"O-okay." Lisa replied as she followed behind the mysterious little girl.

Stella went to the middle of the countless rows of beds, then waved her fingers as the entire space expanded around her.

Everyone who was around her was astonished as they all looked at her.

She used her law dominion to create a lot of wooden chairs and placed them neatly in rows.

She had cut a lot of trees from the forest beside the Stargate City earlier to make beds.

Her law manipulation was flawless as the trees transformed into appropriate shapes and leaves turned into long fibers.

She was quite surprised by her own handiwork.

She swept everyone with her consciousness and teleported them to the chairs.

They were even more surprised this time. But nobody dared to speak.

Stella appropriately arranged them with the pregnant girls sitting in the front in a separate area.

She had already scanned each of them in detail.

There were 2,732 of them in total.

And 491 of them were pregnant.

Most of them conceived less than one month ago, and the highest was three months.

She intended to talk about it with them later on.

Stella walked onto a raised platform she had created. Else many of them sitting in the back won't be able to see her. Even if she hated to admit it, in truth, she was indeed quite short.

"Hello to you all. I am the one responsible for setting you free and bringing you here. My name is Stella.

And now that the introduction is out of the way, let me brief you on the possible paths that you have available.

One, return to your family members.

Two, start anew somewhere far from here, possibly another continent.

Three, stay in nearby orphanages until you come of age.

And no, you cannot stay here indefinitely.

She was met with a brief period of silence as clamors broke out.

Everyone was a bit nervous, but they chose their options carefully.

Almost half of them chose to go back to their family members. A portion of them that didn't have any place to go back to wanted to start anew somewhere far away.

And quite a lot of them wanted to stay in the nearby orphanages until they figured out what to do.

Stella grouped everyone by their choices, except the ones that were pregnant.

Then she teleported the separate groups away to their own designated location.

Now, she had to talk to the ones that were pregnant and inform them of it. She knew over ninety percent of them had no idea they had conceived.

"So, do you have any idea why you were separated from the others?" Stella asked them.

Most of them simply shook their heads.

"Well.... it's because all of you were impregnated."

Stella gave them the bad news.

Most of them were shocked. Which was soon replaced with helpless expressions.

Some of them started crying as they perfectly knew how hard it would be for them to give birth, and survive the ordeal. Most of them in the group were barely 12.

"But, I can help. I can revert your state of pregnancy."

Stella gave them a shocking piece of information.

"Not only that, your body will be reverted to your previous state, meaning you'll no longer have to bear the burden of forcefully being tarnished.

All of you can lead a normal and happy life, just like the rest of them.

So, what's your choice?

Will you still give birth despite your age? Raise your hands."

None of them raised their hands.

Their mind and soul were properly healed. So they were not hesitant to do it.

They knew how much of a risk it was and had a low chance of surviving childbirth.

Compared to getting their body reverted and their chastity restored, was it worth it to bear the child of someone who was nothing but a monster in their eyes?

It wasn't worth it.

So everyone agreed with her suggestion.

Stella used [Radiant Healing] on them again, this time, intending to revert all changes in their body....

She was a bit uncomfortable doing this, but she knew these girls deserved this much freedom of choice after what they went through.

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'That was quite the work. I never thought [Radiant Healing] would be this powerful.

When she saw them at first, their eyes were lifeless. Most of them were in trauma.

Considering the situation they were in.... many of them would've been traumatized and broken for life even after getting freed.

But their mind and heart were fixed to the best possible state...

Without any side effects at all.'

Stella decided to let them rest for now. She would let them go to their chosen locations in the coming days.

'That girl Lisa wanted to say something to me...

I wonder what it was... I'll ask her tomorrow.'

She glanced back at them once, then teleported away from the sub-dimension.