I returned to my homeland with Eric and got reunited with my loved ones whom I had missed so dearly during my four and a half years stay in America. To make things less complicated, Eric and I decided not to reveal the real reason why I disappeared, and instead made everyone believe that I had been washed ashore and was a victim of memory loss until he found me in a faraway land.
I wasn’t quite convinced with the idea of lying to them, but Eric suggested that the truth would only hurt them and so what happened in America was a secret that remained only between the two of us.
Coming back to the mountains felt like one of those pleasant dreams that reappear after a long sabbatical. I was relieved to be back home, but what relived me more was that I was home with a man who fought till the
