In a strange way, Buck has already passed on when Stella meets him. In Stella’s life, Buck was her sister Lily’s friend who died in his teenage years. Stella remembers Lily’s recounting of many of Buck’s stories, after his death. Although Stella never actually met him in life, his story fascinated her, as well as the geeky personality Lily described when she talked about him. Buck’s habits of escaping his reality through tabletop RPG’s led Stella to believe, in a very peculiar way, 