“Mira. I want to cancel my trial.”

He nodded. “That’ll be $959.88.”

She Googled it. Nothing. Reddit had one deleted post titled “DO NOT HIKE TRIAL CRACK” with a single comment: “It’s not a trail. It’s a crack.”

“Neither is stepping on the moss.” He pointed at her left boot. A single strand of glowing green fuzz clung to the tread.

And somewhere, deep inside the AllTrails servers, a line of code updated: User: Mira. Status: Still paying.