In Chap­ter 120 of “All the Col­ors of the Dark,” Patch wan­ders through the lux­u­ri­ous man­sions of Charleston, absorb­ing the details and vivid col­ors of the build­ings. He recalls a let­ter he received years ago from a girl named Mya Lev­ane, and encoun­ters a house­keep­er who reveals that Mya’s body had been dis­cov­ered six months pri­or. When Patch inquires about Mya’s fate, the house­keep­er, while soft­en­ing a bit, hints that the details are unset­tling and insists Mya had been in Mex­i­co at the time of her death.

Lat­er, Patch vis­its the Bank of South Car­oli­na, with­draw­ing a thou­sand dol­lars. He gen­er­ous­ly gives away most of it, keep­ing only two hun­dred, which he donates to a group of home­less peo­ple by the Ash­ley Riv­er. One par­tic­u­lar­ly touch­ing moment occurs when a young girl, no old­er than four­teen, embraces him tight­ly, indi­cat­ing the impact of his ges­ture.

That night, Patch boards a bus, observ­ing the land­scape shift from the sun­set over the Blue Ridge Moun­tains to the dark­ness envelop­ing the hills, indi­cat­ing a tran­si­tion between two worlds. Through­out the jour­ney, he does­n’t sleep; instead, he touch­es his scar and reflects on his past lives and expe­ri­ences. The flash­ing lights of pass­ing trucks remind him of his tumul­tuous jour­ney, lead­ing him to pon­der the con­clu­sion of his search and the inevitabil­i­ty of time. He con­tem­plates Eloise Strike and her father, Wal­ter, sens­ing a con­nec­tion that sug­gests they might be pur­su­ing sim­i­lar paths, rein­forc­ing his hunch that they share a com­mon quest—or loss relat­ed to Mya Lev­ane. This chap­ter encap­su­lates themes of mem­o­ry, loss, and the quest for under­stand­ing, as Patch grap­ples with his expe­ri­ences and the haunt­ing echoes of his past.