Pages 28 - 48 Summary

Sylder, now twenty-one, is fired from his job at a factory for getting into a fight with one his co-workers. With no idea as to what he will do next, he goes to a bar and decides to just start driving. After leaving another bar sometime later, he heads back to his car. He is barely conscious, not so much from alcohol but from exhaustion. When he opens up his car door, he finds a man sitting inside. Too tired to be startled, he asks him what he is doing. The man explains that he is sick and begs for a ride back to Maryville, where he surmised Sylder was from given his license plates. Sylder says no and demands the man to get out of his car, but the man instead just slides over into the passenger seat as if...