The final story allows 4 different paths you can select creating 4 different, or at least slightly different, story lines. I thought that it would be more freeing to explore each of the possible directions I thought the story could go. As I wrote, some paths were more interesting to me than others (and thus the vastly different lengths of the paths). I am thinking about returning to this story at some point down the road and writing a sequel to one or two of my favorite paths.