As soon as he saw her approaching, Henri swallowed hard. The warm, yellowish light bathed her in an almost golden glow, while the rising steam filled the air, making the moment even more intense, as though time itself had stopped to watch them.

She was real. She was there, standing before him, just as she had been before... back in the days when everything still seemed possible.

“Catarina...” he murmured, trying to put what he felt into words, but his voice failed him. No sentence seemed capabl