Luna pulls into a dusty strip mall off Route 9, somewhere west of Nowhere, Wyoming. The hardware store is lit like a gas station—fluorescent hum, the smell of drywall and WD-40. A man in an orange apron stands behind the counter, watching her with the stillness of someone who hasn't blinked in a while. He doesn't ask what she needs. He just points to the back aisle. Luna walks past power tools and paint rollers, past a display of padlocks that looks recently disturbed, past a freezer full of ice melt and windshield fluid. At the end of the aisle, a door stands ajar—metal, heavy, with a sign that says EMPLOYEES ONLY. The man's voice comes from behind her: 'You here for the return?' The story of that night, of the thing that came back, and the receipt that doesn't have a date. Intimate, slow-burn, heard through the crackle of a cheap intercom.