Ghost: If you could be reincarnated, would you come back as another human or an animal? If an animal, what kind?
A memory–hazy to the point Tess can’t be sure it ever happened in the first place: ‘You’ve always been more like our girls.’
(White hair everywhere: sawing through it with the knife–)
She squeezed her eyes shut, pressing hers against closed lids. “Maybe I’d be an Asgardian instead, or….”
(For days afterward, she was finding spiderweb strands of it stuck to her body, bits of silver in the weave of her sweaters–)
Tess smiled against the darkness; it was a slight, grim twitch of the lips. “I think I’d like to be an Asgardian. Does that count?”











