Chapter Twenty-Six
From Here to Eternity
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
- Hugh Prather
ETHAN
Memphis, Tennessee
Present Day - Eight weeks later
It was dark when I woke up. I hadn’t awoken this early in months. The dawn always had a different life when you woke up to it, a sort of sleepy awakening that sings of vitality and new beginnings.
I walked out of my Memphis hotel door quietly, making sure I shut it silently behind my feet. The sun’s rising glow was muted as I climbed in my rented car, and the further out I traveled, the darker the environment seemed to get. I rolled down the windows and rode for what felt like forever.
My shirt was sticky, my hands dirty within ten minutes by the time I made it to Dayton, the horrific humidity covering me w
