Lessons & Lore

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Prologue: Before the Road

I didn’t know I had wings. Not when I fell. Not when I fractured. Not even when I woke up gasping in the dark.

But the road whispered. With every step I took—through thorn, through fog, through flame—I gathered truths I thought I’d lost. They didn’t arrive all at once. They came in quiet moments, in a reflection, in a touch, a voice that said, “You’re not alone.”