Ada started with a deep blue, but not for the reasons Chester or Duncan or any of the others would have assumed (worried). Dark red, dark yellow, brighter, black and green-black and a luminescent color so bright it hurt.

It wasn't a memory that Ada could pin down any more than anyone else could remember the first time they recognized their house as where they lived. But rising out of the night came the Miller Family Carnival. Or at least, a very small part of it, as seen by a girl taking a nap under another ride during a break. Maybe from a summer when she was five, or fifteen, but Ada didn't need to think to know what color went where.