One night in early December 2021, Luna drove the last five miles home on Old Denton Road, a narrow gravel lane that cuts through the wolf-willow flats east of Bent Creek, Wyoming. She was exhausted, and the snow was coming down hard, and she almost didn't see the woman walking barefoot along the shoulder in a thin cotton dress. But Luna did see her. And she pulled over. And she opened her passenger door. And that is where this story begins. What Luna learned over the next hour—about the woman's name, her lost house, her reason for being out there—should have been reassuring. But something about the way the woman's smile didn't reach her eyes, and the way she kept touching Luna's sleeve as if memorizing the fabric, never quite settled. By the time Luna dropped her off at the end of a dirt driveway that led to a dark house with a light on upstairs, she understood that some encounters are not meant to be finished. They are meant to be carried.