Things that burn out of grey: 1. A signal flare above the Strait. 2. The word ALIVE spray-painted on a decommissioned substation. 3. Magenta. 4. The specific frequency of a ten-year-old deciding something. 5. Neon arm warmers, mismatched, correct. 6. Cyan. 7. Every candle ever lit in a Wellington kitchen in winter. 8. Hot yellow. 9. The myth the people around her are quietly assembling, without her permission, out of this exact moment. 10. Her.