He sent the file to Fatima with a single message: “This is your home, madam. Arham will see the sky.”

“Let them wait,” Danish said, not looking away from the screen. “Let me finish this one first.”

The Last Layer of Light

The clock on the wall read 2:00 AM, but the studio was humming.

Fatima was a schoolteacher in Bahawalpur. She had saved for twenty years to build a small house for her disabled son, Arham. Her budget was laughably small by the studio’s standards. The big developers had three-story mansions waiting in the queue.