In an interview with Seth, Bola reflects on her sister Zelu's spirit and the family's belief that the spirits had marked Zelu in an ominous way. Bola explains the difficulties Zelu faced visiting Nigeria, where disability is stigmatized and infrastructure is unaccommodating, yet Zelu, like all the Naijamerican siblings, loved the country unconditionally despite its harshness.

Bola recounts a memory from when she was ten and Zelu fifteen, during a family trip. While the rest of the family attended a cousin's engagement party, the sisters stayed home and eventually went for a walk through their father's village, trailed by a group of mocking local boys.

They encountered their grand-uncle Ikechukwu, who insisted on being called Uncle Pious. He confronted Zelu about her accident, accusing her of not considering how her injury would affect the family. Zelu pushed back angrily, but had to swallow her response out of respect for her elder. Uncle Pious chased off the taunting boys with an Igbo remark and called both sisters "incomplete"—Bola for not speaking Igbo, Zelu for not walking.

Pious then told a frightening folktale about a boy who saw something supernatural and was eventually taken, becoming a head-stealing apparition seen on the road. The story terrified Bola into avoiding walks, but Zelu became enraptured, absorbing the tale despite her earlier fury at Pious. Bola realized in that moment that Zelu possessed a gift for connecting the invisible and giving form to it through words—a storytelling magic Bola, the logical engineer, could recognize but never share. Bola tells Seth she wishes she could ask Zelu more about it now.