The wind blew in a calamitous frenzy around them, thick with anticipation. I carried with me the sound of their heartbeat, men and women once separated across continents. They named her Liberia. I called for the dust and sand below to join me in the air. I awakened the hurricanes and danced. Dared the captors to challenge me. Dared them to confront what they could not see, deemed invisible.
