Los Angeles. A stretch of hours between two flights. The crew hotel sits close enough to the water that you can hear it if you leave the window cracked. Adrian has slept the mandatory hours, had the coffee, checked the roster twice out of habit. Now there's that strange luxury: a few hours with nothing on the schedule. No briefing, no service, no responsibility for anyone but himself. He decides to walk. No destination, no map — just the sun, the salt in the air, and legs tha