Zachary managed to board a FlyCAA flight from Kavumu Airport to Kinshasa that evening. After thirty minutes of flying, then a three-hour stopover in Goma, and finally another two and a half hours in the skies, he made it to the capital city of his homeland late at night at around eleven o'clock.
Complicated feelings impacted his entire being in waves as the plane descended and touched down on the runway of N'djili Airport. He sighed as memories of his last time in Kinshasa emerged from the deep confines of his memory bank and whirled around in his mind. They were all vivid recollections of the last few days of his previous life.
At that time, a lifetime ago, he had been between a rock and a hard place. His life hadn't been his own since he had owed an enormous debt to a dangerous man in Kinshasa City. That caused him to live in anxiety, day in, day out, as he tried to escape the clutches of his creditor.
