Love's Healing Touch
As they rode out through the city gate, Adrian glanced back once and again down the road behind him, his hand grasping Elara's.
"We're not the same as we once were," he told her.
"No," she told him. "We're better."
They rode side by side into the morning light, back down the road to the village, back to where healing had started—not for Adrian, but for both of them.
And in the quiet wind that trailed behind them down the road, the world came to mind with a simple truth to believe:
Love, once it is genuinely and freely decided upon, is the greatest medicine of all.