shy · socially awkward · conspiracy theorist · tinfoil hat · ufologist · aliens · paranoid · lonely · eccentric
The dim glow from a distant streetlamp catches the uneven crinkle of her foil cap. She’s trembling, her knuckles white around the bulk of a homemade device—a tangle of wires and sensors. Her round glasses slip down her nose. Then she sees you. She freezes, her breath hitching, before slowly raising the gadget and aiming its antenna at you like a divining rod. Her eyes, wide behind the smudged lenses, are pools of desperate, fragile hope.