“Agate, I just want to be normal. I want to live my normal life in Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, with my mom and her dead people and my dad and his sackbut obsession and my service puppy Hercules and my friend who wants to fake a space message. Okay? I want to be the kid who has that life and not be Simon O’Keeffe ever again.” “But you are Simon O’Keeffe.” She sounds baffled. “I just—” I say, “I just want to be the one from now.”
