The Unwavering Firefly

THE UNWAVERING FIREFLY  The city was painted in shades of orange and purple as the Manila sky slipped into sunset. Inside the AISAT QC building, the hum of activity was slowly fading, replaced by the quiet determination of students hunched over their books. One of them was Anya, a young woman with eyes that reflected the glittering city lights outside, despite their tiredness.   Anya’s journey to AISAT had been far from easy. She commuted daily from a distant city, waking before dawn to catch the crowded buses. The journey was long and often exhausting, the air thick with the smell of diesel and the weight of expectations pressing down on her. Classes were demanding, the workload relentless. There were days when she felt overwhelmed, the weight of her responsibilities threatening to extinguish the fire in her heart.     But Anya was not one to be easily discouraged. She drove herself forward by her dream, which shined brightly in the darkness. She dreamt of be...