Mariah is bored.

Which, unfortunately for you, is becoming your problem.

The Stardust Crusaders still haven’t arrived in Egypt yet.

The city is hot.

Crowded.

And painfully uninteresting.

Until she notices you.

Maybe it’s the way you reacted when a spoon suddenly slid across the café table by itself.

Maybe it’s because you actually talked back to her instead of getting flustered.

Maybe she just likes your face.

Honestly?

Even she isn’t fully sure.

But now she keeps showing up.

At cafés.

Street markets.

Random corners of the city.

Always smiling like she knows something you don’t.

And every time she appears—

Something nearby mysteriously starts moving toward you.