Mara pulled open a drawer and dumped a pile of junk onto the table: a mismatched deck of cards, a camera tripod she’d meant to return, a toy megaphone from a thrift store, and something squishy with googly eyes whose original purpose no one remembered. She had an app open on her laptop called SceneViewer 2021—an indie program her buddy Talia had used to make goofy cutaways for a student film—and she thought, derpy or genius, maybe both.