The others were already up the ramp, but she halted one step from the clean steel slope. She thought of all the past and all the pain. Somehow it had lead to this incredible moment.
Azadah looked one last time at a night sky of emerging stars she would forever own as she stepped off a desert she would never see again.
Her home was in the heart of a man. This man. The one she would always walk beside no matter where the path lay.
For there was no greater gift than this man who had come to her from the sky.
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