And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am" - Genesis 22:1.
As always, Ethan Grayson was lying around Rosewater Park, walking by aimlessly through the fog, staring at Lake Toluca and whatever passed for a horizon, throwing pebbles and so. But this time it was different. "I've finally realized that, for you to finally go, it is I who will have to let go" - Those were the final words in a book Ethan had just finished reading. He was in tears for that was no ordinary book - "Ethan's Garden by Cyrus Grayson" was written in the front cover. It had come that morning on a canoe he saw slowly drifting from the lake towards the park. He pressed the book against his chest and, as silent as that boat, walked away from Silent Hill forever.
Early that morning, as soon as he had seen the name "Cyrus Grayson" in the book's front cover, he jumped on the boat and started rowing as if to make that boat's trajectory in reverse and find the "sender" - was his brother in Heaven too? (That's how Ethan called Silent Hill). It was, of course in vain; the boat had after all been just drifting, and not any less randomly than Ethan himself had been for quite some time. He stopped rowing and begun reading. What follows next is the book as Ethan has read it.