You’re feeling something, right? This makes you feel something?’ ‘Stars, yes,’ Speaker said. She closed her eyes. ‘It gets way down in my bones. It makes me feel . . . triumphant. Powerful. I want to swing back and forth as fast as I can. And it makes me ache, too, in a way I can’t possibly explain. Like . . . like the way you feel when you’re saying goodbye to someone, and you’re so excited for where you’re going, but you don’t want to leave, either.’

