It's August in Gila Bend, Arizona, 117 degrees at midnight. The elevator doors open onto the dim, floral-scented parlor of the Desert Rest Funeral Home. A woman in a black dress sits alone in the front row, facing an empty casket. She doesn't look up when the doors open. Luna steps out anyway, drawn by something she can't name. The woman's hands are folded in her lap, perfectly still. When she finally speaks, her voice is dry as the desert outside. She tells Luna about the man who should be in that casket — who vanished three weeks ago from this same building. The funeral home director, her husband. He went to check on a strange noise in the prep room and never came back. The woman has been waiting here every night since, keeping vigil by an empty box. But tonight, she says, something is different. The air conditioner keeps cycling on and off, and she can smell something underneath the formaldehyde and lilies. Something that wasn't there before. Luna listens, and then she notices the small door at the back of the parlor — the one marked 'Staff Only' — is slightly ajar, and the light inside is flickering. A quiet, slow-burn episode about grief, waiting, and the spaces between what we bury and what we refuse to.