When Martin Anderson asked me to contribute a piece for string orchestra to an album to be dedicated to his fiancée Yodit Tekle and their son Alex, I was touched and moved by accounts of the tragic death of Yodit from cancer, leaving Martin bereft with a five-year-old son. A photograph of Yodit, showing a beautiful young woman of Eritrean descent, immediately brought to mind the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, whose name means ‘the beauty has come’, and I wrote the piece in response to gentle and noble qualities that I saw in Yodit’s image, without ever having met her. The music, in the form of a small vignette, is wistful but optimistic for Alex’s future.