You notice your pulse first. It normally moves quietly, on time, somewhere below your notice. Now it presses forward, beats harder; it has something to say.
The pulse is yours. It doesn’t belong to the drunk guards outside your cell, bent over a rough wooden table, slapping down cards in the dim light. They’re cursing over Aces and Kings, and getting rivered out.
Thunder breaks in the distance. Storm’s coming. You draw a breath. In that small space, something settles.
You win.
The kind of victory that happens quietly. A dream you went after has finally found ground. It lives in you now. It moves through your blood.
Liberty is the dream. Smaller than a speech or a flag, but steadier. There’s defiance in it. It keeps beating through foul weather, ignores Aces and Kings, and the hired hands that hold them.
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