Free, I say, even though it’s not really what I mean. How do I put into words what I think it would be like to stand on a rock in the middle of a black expanse? To look down at our world and see it with new eyes? To feel so tiny and so big all at the same time? He studies me for a moment, and I worry he is going to laugh, that he will think what I said was dumb, but instead his face breaks into a wide smile. Yeah, me too. Yeah, me too are now my three favorite words in English.
