It was the summer of 2021, and I was driving through western Kentucky at night, trying to make it to Paducah before midnight. The gas station at Pigeon Creek was the only light for miles — a single fluorescent tube buzzing over a cracked parking lot. Inside, the attendant had a package for me. He said it had been sitting on the shelf for three days, addressed to Luna, no return, no postmark. I didn't order anything. I didn't know anyone in Pigeon Creek. But the package was warm, and it smelled like wet earth and something metallic, like old machinery. What I found inside changed how I understand the roads I drive at night — not the roads themselves, but the things that wait beside them, patient as gravel.