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You’re sparkly and you caet in? Show us! Take us out of here!

They danced me around like two kids who had found a new playmate Then they wrapped their hot, snakey bodies around lad for ic around th from theeaten My ical body was all ideas and power, controlled by ical self burned to ashes, my real body would die, too

Who are you? I asked Where did you coes? The one who felt more like a boy slowed down He trailed a shock of sparks and flaht, I decided to call him that We cao up We o up

Can’t you feel it? The other one had a prettier voice, e, like carnelian I thought it would o up, and out?

Slowly, though they kept spinning rabbed , etting shorter The tails becas; arms split off from the trunk The ends at their heads settled into their bodies until they had forical body? I had always liked to appear huet

Once they had sied evenflame of hair He had black-rimmed eyeholes around flame eyes Carnelian had turned her fiery hair black like mine She made herself a nose and mouth, as well as eyes

What are you? I felt like an idiot for having to ask again A realhere?

We’re the children of the pool Flare spun until he was a blur, then stopped and took his huain We were born there We swim there, too, sometis than just o out Carnelian obviously thought I was quite slow Don’t you? Don’t you have the pool where you coo somewhere new?

Don’t you want to be someone new? Soainst the roof of the chahlike it I looked down at the pool and felt the tug of it again What would it be like to give up es completely? To melt and join all those other spirits? I could be stone forever Why did these tant to leave that?

I came to myself and looked at Flare and Carnelian I have never h the earth

You mean the cold stuff? You travel in that? Who do you meet, then? Flare asked