In “Chap­ter 213, All the Col­ors of the Dark,” the nar­ra­tive cen­ters on Saint, who sits in her cruis­er, observ­ing the build­ing that con­tains her only friend. She grap­ples with the desire to share her har­row­ing expe­ri­ences with him, par­tic­u­lar­ly how her actions placed the res­cue of Ash­lee Miller, a young woman whose life was saved thanks to her pur­suit of Eli Aaron. Despite her efforts in the swamp­land armed and ready, she strug­gles to locate the man that could lead her to Grace, feel­ing she is tan­ta­liz­ing­ly close.

As day tran­si­tions to night, Saint seeks solace in a near­by bar, order­ing a bour­bon while tak­ing in the famil­iar environment—the smell, the sounds of con­ver­sa­tion, and the atmos­phere rem­i­nis­cent of her grandmother’s porch. How­ev­er, her moment of respite is shat­tered when a news report fea­tur­ing Jim­my Wal­ters, a man from her past, flash­es on a tele­vi­sion. The con­trast between the mem­o­ry of his smile and the real­i­ty of his nature caus­es an emo­tion­al reac­tion in Saint, prompt­ing her to throw her glass at the screen in a moment of rage and grief.

The shat­ter­ing glass draws atten­tion, and amidst the chaos, Black­jack, a fig­ure from her life, inter­venes to escort her out. His inquiry about her con­nec­tion to Jim­my gar­ners a painful admis­sion; she recalls him as not being a good man. Their con­ver­sa­tion is abrupt­ly cut short as Black­jack returns to man­age the after­math of her out­burst, leav­ing Saint alone to con­tend with her feel­ings under­neath a night sky that offers no judg­ment or clar­i­ty.

This chap­ter cap­tures the ten­sion between mem­o­ry and real­i­ty, show­cas­ing Sain­t’s inter­nal strug­gles and emo­tion­al tur­moil as she grap­ples with her past trau­mas while search­ing for the truth that could lead to Grace. It’s a poignant moment of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty set against the back­drop of her iso­la­tion and the rem­nants of a painful lega­cy.