It was the summer of 2003, just past midnight on a two-lane blacktop outside Marfa, Texas. Luna's car had died near Twelvemile Creek, and the only light for miles came from a roadside antique shop called The Last Stop. Inside, a woman named Elara sold objects she claimed had been 'returned' — items that came back after being thrown away or lost. She showed Luna a full-length mirror with a dark, rippling surface that did not reflect the room behind them. Instead, it showed a version of the shop as it might have been decades ago, dust-sheeted and abandoned, with something moving just beyond the frame. Luna watched her own reflection in that mirror age rapidly, then blink — when she hadn't. The story she heard that night about the mirror's first owner, a girl named Cora, is one she still wakes up thinking about. There is no lesson here. No moral. Just a piece of glass that remembers things differently.