Kithaira moves in and out of a person’s mind like water through a sieve. She lingers just long enough for the person to find their joy, their peace, their ecstacy, or their drunkenness, and then she floats away to watch. Seeing the person embrace their inner desire for feeling good is a special moment for Kithaira, and she gets to live out that special moment in so many ways. In the yoga studio, in the smoke-filled basement, at the bar, or at the wedding, Kithaira drifts about gently touching people with what feels like either pure electricity or pure numbness.

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It’s these feelings that grab a person—that feeling of being alive and their entire brain lighting up or the feeling of drifting off and their entire brain shutting down. Whatever the feeling is, it’s not the person’s normal way of being. And when a person is sick and tired of the “normal” way of being, they’ll chase after whatever it was that made things different. Kithaira moves like a flower floating on water because she knows she doesn’t need to hurry. There’s nothing pressing, nothing urgent. Everything happens on its own time. Her people will come to her anyway. She’s chased by more people than any human can count.

But she’s counted them all—each one is special to her.