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how?"
    "What if the glasses are like some . . . I don't know . . . like some intergalactic charge card, or something? And what if someone comes to collect the bill?"
    "They don't work like that," said Kevin.
    "How do you know?"
    "Because I do! When you wear the glasses, you just know things about them."
    "Like what?"
    Kevin cradled the glasses in his hands, running his fingers tenderly across the black-and-gold rim.
    "Like they were meant to be used," he said. "Like they're supposed to make everything a whole lot better. That they're more valuable than anything in the world."
    Josh reached out and gently took the glasses from Kevin, staring at them as if he held the world's most precious diamond in his hands. He seemed almost afraid to be touching them.
    "Would I feel all that if I wore them?" asked Josh.
    "Probably," said Kevin, grabbing the glasses back and slipping them on. "But you don't need towear them, as long as you've got me. I'll give you whatever you want."
    Josh seemed relieved, as if he really didn't want to test them himself, anyway.
    Kevin burped, then giggled as a thought occurred to him. "I guess I'm the master of the universe."
    "Ah, put a leash on it!" said Josh.
    "No way." Kevin's imagination had been strapped to a post long enough. He stood up, hungry for something more than fast food, and climbed on a high boulder, reaching a hand up to the heavens.
    Josh laughed. "Whatcha gonna do? Part the Red Sea?"
    "Something like that."
    Josh stopped laughing and watched as Kevin stared through his glasses at the infinite depths of the star-filled sky.
    "Clouds," he whispered to the night. The frame of the glasses began to get warm, the lenses went dark and then silver. Directly above them, a gray spot appeared, like a hole in the sky, and clouds began to unfold, growing high above their heads— dense gray clouds, but the glasses reflected them in rich, swirling hues.
    "Pretty intense," said Josh. "Now stop it."
    The clouds spread out and blackened. Now the entire mountain was covered by gray clouds, turning black. A billow shrouded the moon, and the forest became as dark as moonshadow. Kevin Held both hands up to the sky. "Wind!" he said. And the mountain breathed, sending a wind that rasped across the treetops, then swooped down, picking up leaves and pine needles, dragging them away.
    Josh labored against his full stomach to stand up. "Are you deaf? I said that's enough!"
    "Faster!" Kevin said. The wind began to groan and the trees bend to its voice.
    Back at the campsite, everyone must have been watching the dark threat of the sky. Kevin could imagine tents blowing away with the wind, his wind.
    "You see?" said Kevin. "All I have to do is say it, and it happens! Even if I just whisper it!" Far above, the clouds began to flash and rumble.
    "Kevin, you're scaring me!" yelled Josh. "Stop it!"
    "I'm not finished!" It was Christmas rolled up with the Fourth of July. The clouds began to swirl and change, their electricity moaning to be released.
    Now the smile was gone from Kevin's face, and although the glasses had gone as dark as dark could be, Kevin could see through them with an impossible clarity. He could see all the clouds, inside and out, swirling with color. The eyeglass frame was heating up around his ears and across his eyebrows. It glowed a dull red. "Now the fireworks!" He threw up his hands like the very small conductor of a very large orchestra.
    "Lightning," he said.
    "Kevin, no!"
    Lightning exploded all around them.
    Again Kevin threw up his hands and pulled down the lightning, much more violently than before. Now it was time for the grand finale. He pointed his finger at a tree directly in front of him. "There!" he said, and as he did, a fat, sizzling bolt shot down from the sky, hit the tree dead center, and split it in two with a deafening roar.
    The colors swirling before his eyes settled down as the glasses awaited their next command—but Kevin had had enough for now. He let the colors fade and