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Every child plays with fire at some stage. It's easy to let little fingers dart through candle flames. It's fun to hold a match under bits of paper, watch them curl into themselves under blue flames and transform into delicate ashen ghosts. It's curiosity, mostly, it's fresh eyes entranced by the amorphous, the untouchable, the glowing. Most children, though, they grow up. The curiosity fades with age, replaced by indifference. Sometimes, fear.
That's the thing about Tyler, though. He doesn't really grow up in the way his peers do; he doesn't try on new hairstyles and turn his old self to cinder. He's always in tune with the tree rings inside him.
Tyler can't remember a time where he hasn't been enraptured by the silent pulse of glowing embers.
Josh? Josh has fire-engine red hair.