Saint drives a rental car out of New York on the Long Island Expressway, passing the traffic backed up from the QueensMidtown Tunnel and heading east through Nassau and Suffolk. As the landscape shifts from gray city edges to greener woodland near Riverhead, Saint feels her unease sharpen, showing that this trip carries real emotional weight.

During the drive, Patch’s voice plays through the stereo, as it has on every similar journey since. Saint keeps listening because she needs to hear Grace’s voice one more time to justify the trip, and Grace’s recorded words about the Resurrection, "the three persons," and blood flowing over black rock frame the journey as a search guided by a cryptic clue rather than certainty.

Saint continues through small Long Island towns and beach communities stripped of their summer charm by the approaching winter. She parks some distance from a church, walks up a broad lane lined with bare trees and dormant grass, and studies the signs there. The location finally resolves into something concrete: the town is Black Rock, and the church is St. Mary Magdalene on Trinity Road, giving Grace’s haunting language a real-world destination.