It was October in the high desert, just past midnight, and the wind had been screaming for three days straight. Luna pulls off the highway at a gas station in El Prado, New Mexico — a place that exists only because a road happens to pass through it. The attendant inside is old, quiet, watching a small TV that shows nothing but static. He tells her about the sound the wind makes when it carries something that isn't dust. About the fence line that hums at a frequency no recording can capture. About the night the wind brought back something the town had buried. She doesn't believe him. Not until she steps outside and hears it herself — a thin, high, human note woven into the gale, coming from the direction of the arroyo. And the wind keeps blowing, and the static keeps hissing, and the attendant just says, 'It'll find you if you listen too long.' Luna doesn't look back when she drives away. But the sound follows her for three hundred miles.