It was mid-July on Route 22, just south of the county line, when the frogs stopped. Luna's uncle had been a night-shift trucker for thirty years, and he knew every sound of that road—the hum of the tires on the old asphalt, the wind through the cornfields, the chorus of frogs that started at dusk and ended just before dawn. But on that single Wednesday, the frogs went silent at 3:14 AM, and the silence spread like cold water through the cab of his semi. He pulled over at the old rest stop, the one with the broken soda machine and the single flickering light. And that's where he saw the woman in the blue dress, standing at the edge of the treeline, her back to him, not moving. He didn't tell this story for years. He only told it to me once, on the porch, the night before he died. And I've never forgotten the way his voice dropped when he said her name.