October 2003, just past midnight in the small town of Ember Grove. Luna’s cousin Becca calls from the payphone at the dead end of Peace Street, where the road crumbles into woods. She says she’s been walking for hours, that she left her car at the diner, that something followed her home the night before. Luna listens to the fear in Becca’s voice, the way it tightens when she describes the figure standing at the foot of her bed — tall, thin, with no face. The call drops twice. The third time, Becca whispers that it’s here, watching her from the treeline. Luna drives to Peace Street. The phone booth is empty. The receiver swings. And in the dirt, a set of footprints leads into the dark — two sets, side by side, one dragging. A quiet, lingering episode about what we cannot save each other from, and the calls that keep coming after we hang up.