She pulled me down a long hallway that had most of the doors closed to what I was sure were all bedrooms. The place was huge, which I’d seen from the outside when we landed in the dark. All I knew for sure is that we were near the ocean because I could smell it, could feel that certain breeze that comes only with clean, fresh sea air. Something I hadn’t felt since before my dad died.

We used to travel a lot when he wasn’t deployed and then of course ...