WHICH MAN STAYS?
He was learning to turn the light on for others.
Liam came up beside her, his shoulder warm against hers. "He'll remember this forever," he said.
"Yes," she agreed. "This is what he'll remember. Not the fear. The light."
Later, in the small, warm room inside the lighthouse, Maya looked at the photographs on the wall. It showed the lighthouse through the years, the keepers and their families, the storms and the calm. It was a story of ordinary, steady persistence. Of a light that kept turning, no matter what.