The search for the soul by Inman and Ada are very different, but they both have to work hard, and do, to get what they want and need. Inman eventually makes it back to Cold Mountain and is reunited with Ada, but never gets all the way home. He does, however, find what he wanted when he left the war. His reunion with Ada gives him solace, and “[the cabin they stayed in on their first night] was a place that held within its walls no pain nor even a vague memory collection of pain.” Inman is finally home. He knows that this is what he wanted, but he wants it longer than he will get to have this luxury. When he dies at the end, in Spirits of Crows, Dancing, you can tell by the scene that “an observer on the ridge could avouch to it later in such