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“Maybe this is the year we let it go,” I say “You got a lot to be excited about already with college in a new city next week and your series and—”

“People can gain powers on their eighteenth birthdays,” Brighton interrupts

“In books and movies”

“Which are all based on celestials, who’ve historically cohteen”

“But how rare is that?”

“Rare ot to win an argu in our birthday Proble “The ti every celestial’s power, and if we have even a flicker of gleareater I justI sense it already”

“You sense it? This another psychic prank?”

Brighton shakes his head and laughs “Good times, but nah I’ feeling in my blood and bones”

“Let’s bet twenty dollars on this blood-and-bones feeling” Easy cash to buy another graphic novel

“Bet”

We fist-bunature move

Brighton’s had his eye on this rooftop rave, and we get in line aslet into the brownstone We’re behind to the half capes that are custoe as I reo ned some for fun, completely clueless as to how sacred the capes are until our best friend, Prudencia, explained the traditions I quickly donated ours to a local shelter Once the woo up the stoop, but this low-key bouncer blocks the door

“Celestials only,” he says