This chapter unfolds as a Möbius-like meditation on the unpredictable, unfinished, and unscalable nature of story-listening. Rather than offering closure, it leans into ambiguity, improvisation, and what lingers beyond conventional endings. Inspired by postmodern clowning, Andy Kaufman’s life and art, and the notion of refusing the fourth wall both in writing and in education, the chapter reflects on how story-listening stretches across performance and pedagogy, disrupting linearity and resisting finality. At its core is a critique of the dominant educational push to “scale up” pedagogical models—a movement that often flattens diversity and erases local relationships. Instead, the chapter proposes “scaling across”: a deeply contextual, reciprocal, and living approach to situate story-listening as a responsive pedagogical option. Drawing from mathematics, theatre, personal reflection, and educational theories, it argues that what comes next in education should not be predetermined, but co-emergent, grounded in story, relationship, and improvisational openness. The Great Beyond thus becomes an invitation to spiral into the not-yet, to drift with curiosity, and to keep listening. Dwelling in the pauses and whirls of pedagogy, it reaffirms story-listening as a practice that unsettles, resists capture, and asks us to attend, once more, to what is emerging.