“If you’re not the straight man and you’re not the audience, what part do you think you’re playing, then?” She tilts her head, just a little too far to be natural.

Sparkle giggles. “Oh, you’re from somewhere very different from me, aren’t you? That’s all right, even if you don’t know Aha, I know THEM. And of course I’m a joke—I’m a Fool, that’s the entire point.” She twirls, a little pirouette, splashing out a ring of reflective mirror water. “But if you don’t know the Elation, of course you don’t know what a Fool is.”