October 2023. Parchman Lane, outside Iron Creek, Illinois. A dead-end road with a single streetlight that never shut off. Luna met a woman named Elise who sat in a folding chair under that light every night for three years. Elise claimed the light showed her things — not the road, not the houses, but the people who had walked that lane before it was paved. She described a girl in a white dress, a man carrying a lantern, a child with a balloon. Luna stayed one night to see for herself. She saw the light flicker once, twice, and then go dark for exactly nine seconds. When it came back, Elise was gone. The chair was still there, warm. This is a story about watching, waiting, and what happens when the thing you watch starts watching back.