Luna recalls a night at a broken-down motel in Baker, California, where a girl named Vera sat in the last room, drawing the same highway over and over in blue ballpoint—each sheet identical down to a single missing guardrail. The motel clerk said she'd been there for three days, paying in quarters, never eating, never sleeping. When Luna looked closer at the drawings, she noticed a car on the shoulder that moved one inch between frames. And in the final sketch, the driver—a stick figure—was standing outside the car, looking up at the motel. The line between Vera's hand and the road out there had worn thin, and by morning, Vera was gone, leaving only a stack of papers and one drawn guardrail that didn't match the real one outside.