It's late October, just past two in the morning, and Luna is driving the Greyhound through the high desert of eastern Oregon. At the Desert Rose Motel in a town called Prineville Junction, a girl boards—maybe fifteen, wearing a thin yellow dress that's too light for the cold. She doesn't have a ticket, just a folded piece of paper with an address scrawled in pencil. She sits three rows back, staring out the window, and for a while Luna forgets about her. But the highway is empty, the bus is quiet, and the girl hasn't blinked in miles. When Luna finally glances in the rearview, she sees the girl's reflection—but the girl is no longer in her seat. The dress is still there, draped over the seatback like a shed skin. And the address on the paper leads somewhere Luna wishes she hadn't gone: a dry lake bed, a rusted fence, and a name that was never listed in any county record. One passenger. One stop. One small town that maybe never was.