Chapter 71

“I want the same for you.”

“You make me happy. Wherever you go, I follow.”

From the river, we headed into town, to a train station there. The trek left my feet quite sore. We would head north by rail, along with two families Calvin introduced as the Porters and the Smalls, people he had known long before joining the Union army, long before he’d been freed. The Porters had five children in tow, the Smalls only one. They were all rather quiet, as if everything here was new and strange to them as well. Perhaps they’d just arrived in Heaven, or were visiting, like Patrick and I, or maybe the reason was entirely different.