“Dad, when people say the sky is bright, what does that really mean?”
The man standing near the window did not answer at once. Matthew Halbrook, one of the most influential financiers in the United States, a man whose signature could move markets and ruin competitors overnight, found himself paralyzed by a sentence no boardroom had ever prepared him for. His son, Lucas Halbrook, was ten years old and had never seen a single shade of light. From the moment he was born, darkness had been the only world he knew, a world doctors described with charts and scans while carefully avoiding the word hopeless, even though their eyes always said it for them.