My father the king I was always afraid of the dark as a child. My kingdom was in Persia when my own father became the supreme ruler or the

I dont know about what other people do in their free time but as a slave I have none. I have to work night and day. This long meaningless hard labour on this ship is crazy. My "employment " is a farce that I bought at the time I embarked on this stupid journey .

My father is the supreme ruler of our land but I ran away from him and the only home I had ever known. My only concern in life was not marrying the man he wanted me to marry. I faked my identity as easy as peasy when you have my security clearance to get about almost anywhere in my country.

I feel foolish now for my stupidity as my labour in this stowaway ship labourer is costing me more than just my youth and strength but actually a lot of money as well. I had to bribe someone for this job. I don't know if that person knew the job is pure labour nights and days of unending labour.

As I lean on my broom out of sheer fatigue a plump manager comes past me and shoves me almost to a bump on the ground. " My goodness but aren't you a lazy one..." , his cold eyes flashes when he uttered this insult. More than one complaint. I have been getting a lot of this lately. This is a triple decker ship. On the sides of the ship there are 40 lifeboats I dont know if these boats are ok or not but the night the ship hit a iceberg we were not ready to board the boats. I was never this afraid in my entire life, fear bubbling up into my throat. I was a stupid oaf but at least I can now be rid of this labour that lasted two years of my life. When I asked the captain for my wages and I wanted to leave after the first six months at sea he laughed at me. He could see my predicament and knew my problems were larger than I had known. He had no intention of giving me my money. At least now we will all die, at least there is justice. My fear of death made me take sleeping tablets and I locked myself into the small cubicle were the brooms were kept. When the others went for the lifeboats I was the only one on board the big ship. It was ironic that the ship never sank and I was awakened the next day at past noon, this I knew from the brightness of the sun shining on my face.

Another strange thing is the fact that the entire ship was empty as I was the sole survivor onboard and the ship had been washed out at a island of sorts. It was small enough for me to see from one side to the other when I had climbed out to the highest point of the ship and looked around to see were I was and if there were any survivors in the water...