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Amelia never dreamed of becoming an engineer.
She dreamed of flying.
As a child, airplanes meant more than distant destinations. They meant family, belonging, and the strange freedom of looking down at the world from somewhere above it. She didn't understand engines or cockpits, and she wasn't a child prodigy destined for laboratories and equations. She simply knew that, one day, she wanted to be the person at the controls.
Life had other plans.
At eighteen, uncertain of where she belonged and carrying words spoken to her years earlier-that something was wrong with her, that she would never get anywhere-Amelia chooses engineering almost by chance.
She doesn't even make it in the first time.
But Amelia has never needed to be fearless to keep going.
She tries again.
What begins as a path she never imagined slowly becomes a world she learns to love: sleepless nights, impossible equations, failed experiments, friendships forged over deadlines, robotics projects that refuse to work until suddenly, beautifully, they do. Somewhere between circuits, code, autonomous machines and the quiet satisfaction of solving problems no one has solved for her, Amelia discovers something unexpected.
She is good at this.
More importantly, she loves it.
Years pass, and the girl who was once told she would get nowhere begins building a life no one-not even Amelia herself-could have predicted.
Yet one part of her never disappears.
Whenever an aircraft crosses the sky, she still looks up.
Always.
Because engineering became the life Amelia chose and learned to love.
Flying was the life she loved before she knew she had to choose.
Then, just as her future finally seems to be taking shape, aviation returns to her life in a way she never expected.
Not as a childhood memory.
Not as an airplane disappearing above the clouds.
But as a person.
A man whose life exists in the world Amelia once imagined for herself. A man who knows airports before sunrise, departures and arrivals, n