reached out to touch the colorful notes, and paused to look at my fingers. They were tingling with a music of their own. “Someone’s finally having fun,” Fauna said, tightening her arm around me. Her doe eyes were larger than ever before. I saw the planets within them. Each freckle was a constellation. She was the Milky Way. I reached out to touch her face and she laughed, giving my hand a friendly kiss as she snatched it away and held it at her side, as if tethering my hands to the earth so they didn’t float away.
