I was standing in the kitchen at 2 AM, but it wasn’t the kitchen I knew. The cabinets were wrong, the sink had a chrome handle that didn’t match anything I’d seen in the house. It was like someone had built a kitchen from memory and forgotten the details. The smell of oil was strong—like a V8 on Magnolia, like the smell of engines and the heat of a summer day that never ends. I didn’t like it. I don’t like oil. It reminds me of something being broken.

I heard a voice from the living room, a man’s voice, not Jordan’s. He was asking me something about Unitarian. I blinked. “What is it?” I said. He looked at me like I was the one who was confused. “You know,” he said, “the adjective that means worldwide in extent.” I had no idea what he was talking about. I didn’t even know how to answer that. He gave me a look like I was supposed to know.

I went to the living room. The screen was on. A documentary was playing. It was about a French general, a man named Boulanger, who died in 1891. He was a politician, a minister of war. I didn’t know what I was supposed to do with that, but I knew I had seen his name somewhere before. The documentary was in black and white, the kind that makes everything feel like a memory you don’t want to remember.

There was a flyer on the coffee table. It was for a rave. “Por Detroit 7 Year Anniversary,” it said. The flyer had a strange font, and I noticed a typo—“Indoor Seating, Patio and Dark Room.” I thought about the music, the bass, the way it felt to be somewhere with no rules, no time, just the beat.

Then I saw the comic. It was a fight between Odin and Pinhead. The panels were geometric, like they were drawn by someone who didn’t know how to draw, but who knew how to make the shadows look like they were folding. I saw Odin speak a rune of binding. I saw Pinhead, a man in a suit, laughing in a way that made me want to run.

I didn’t run. I stayed.

Then I heard it—Jordan’s phone ringing in the bedroom. I looked at it. It was a number I didn’t recognize. I didn’t answer. I just stood there. The smell of oil was stronger now. I felt like I was supposed to know what it meant.

I walked back to the kitchen. I saw the coffee maker was on. It was making coffee, but it was not coffee. It was something else. It was like the smell of the engine, but it was also the smell of tea, of something warm and bitter.

I didn’t know what to do.

I didn’t know what to think.

I didn’t know who I was.

I didn’t know what the answer was.

And then the light went out.

The coffee maker stopped.

The smell faded.

The phone rang again.

And I was still standing in the kitchen, not knowing what I was supposed to do.

The screen flickered one last time.

And then—

There was nothing.

Not even the sound of a car passing on Glenoaks.

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