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What is it? She asks, crouching down to inspect it more closely. It's a telescope, he explains, shining his flashlight on it. What's it for? Tyler can't believe someone his age doesn't know what a telescope is for. Maybe it has to do with her being from Mexico, a subject he will not bring up. Last thing he needs is a girl crying in his secret spot. Bad enough, she has intruded into it. It's for seeing into the far reaches of the universe, he says. Okay, it doesn't see that far, but Tyler loves to pretend that his is a powerful telescope as powerful as the one at the Museum of Science. Maybe some night you'll discover some new star cluster or spot a spaceship zipping around the stars. My Gramps gave it to me last Christmas, he explains as he sets it up by the open hayloft door. The half moon cast on Lee, a faint light inside, without Tyler even having to ask, Mahdi takes the flashlight and shines it wherever his hands were screwing together the parts. I won't be able to kiss her anymore, he says, because he can barely open his mouth. The words come out muffled. She won't even want to kiss me like this to keep himself from squeezing tighter. Michel, Let's go, his hands still damp from a recent scrubbing, hover above Vladimir's body, unsure of where to touch down. Where did you put them? When your brother's ribs are broken and his chest is bruised, when he can hardly breathe? When his jaw is wired shut and his hand bandaged, Where do you put your hands? What can you do that won't make the pain worse? Misha rubs Theo inside of Vladimir's elbow. He pours all his love into this one spot on his brother's body and for everything else for the rest of the world and the people in it, he feels Onley, an unspeakable rage.