Ran had chosen this path for a reason. City gates weren’t tightly manned here, and the signal from the double R was clean. He got through without even having to stop.

Eventually he made his way into the desert and really opened up the throttle.

It was an hour later when Ran approached one of Giresun’s weekend homes, a large estate in a vacation beach community, private gates and beachside cliffs keeping residents safe and cut off. A large, functioning lighthouse sat at one end of a long, hollowed out cove and private sandy beach area for the residents’ enjoyment.