October 2019, just outside Gold Creek, Montana. A woman named Cora hits an elk on a dark stretch of Highway 22. The animal isn't dead when she reaches it, but the sound it makes is wrong — not a cry, but a word. A single, clear word. She will repeat it to herself for the next hour, the next day, the next week, because she needs to understand why it knew her name. Luna heard this story from a friend of a friend who thought it was a hunting accident. But the elk was wearing a collar, and inside the collar was a strip of paper with a phone number. When Cora finally dialed it, the voice on the other end said it had been waiting for her call. For a very long time. This is the story of a road, a name, and a debt that doesn't belong to us.