She had never been as powerless as they had convinced her she was.

The deed had been in the family the whole time.

The law had been on her side the whole time.

The only thing missing had been someone with the standing and the will to pick it all up and use it, and now that someone was home.

I could not wait to tell her.

Not that they were gone, though they were, but that she had never been trapped at all.

There was a particular symbolism to the order in which those three vehicles arrived that was not lost on me, and I do not think it was lost on Julian either.