A warm autumn evening in Millbrook, New Hampshire, 2019. Luna's neighbor, a solitary man named Arthur Phelps, begins paving his driveway at an odd hour—ten at night. The work continues for weeks, always in darkness, always in complete silence. No headlights, no radio, no footsteps other than his own. When Luna finally looks closer, she notices the asphalt is not asphalt. It gleams with a wetness that never dries, and the pattern of cracks spells something in a language she cannot read. This is a story about the things we refuse to see in plain sight, the rituals we mistake for eccentricity, and the question of what—or who—gets sealed beneath the surface.