"The sun had risen, the early-morning air was crisp, and Manning could see his breath. From his vantage point, standing atop the vast stack of cargo modules known as "Big Pink," he could also see a generous swath of the strange, almost surreal landscape in which he and thousands of slaves had been been forced to live during the last few months. Months that felt like years. What he and everyone else referred to as "Hell Hill" was located on a finger of land once known as Governors' Point, locate djust south of the once thriving city of Bellingham, Washington. A place that had once been home to a well-respected state college, a small but charming central business district, and a population willing to trade the hectic pace of a city like Seattle for the pleasures of kayaking on Puget Sound, snowboarding on Mount Baker, and hiking in the cascades. But that was prior to February 28, 2020, the day that the Saurons destroyed the cities of New York, Paris, Moscow, Madrid, Cairo, Beijing, Sydney, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, Tehran, and New Dehli."