✦ The Flight That Set Her Free ✦ English Version By Veronica F. Nitoi With Nova, the narrator From cages to courage, from fear to flight. The First Wings of Freedom Freedom did not come to me as a single moment of escape. It came as a slow unfolding, like wings learning how to open after years of being pressed down. For so long, I lived caged — by silence, by shame, by the belief that I was too weak to leave. I thought the bars around me were permanent, unbreakable. But one day, I realised the cage was not locked. The door had always been there. I only had to dare to step through. The first step was not graceful. It was trembling, unsteady, uncertain. But once I stepped out, I felt something I had almost forgotten: air, possibility, flight. How My Story Took Flight In Rediscovering Myself, the first sparks of flight appeared. I did not yet know I was free, but I knew I wanted to be. Writing became my way of testing my wings, of imagining that there could be more than cages and silence...