Something keeps touching the star.

  Humans have five senses. Touch, taste, sight, smell, and hearing. They use all five of those at once to interact with the world around them.

  It’s like a fly...

  But that’s wrong. Humans have seven senses. The five mentioned above, vestibular, and proprioception. From the length of the words, one can presume scientists figured them out long after the English language was invented.

  I’m gonna catch it.

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  But that’s also wrong. Humans really have twenty-one senses. Hunger and thirst are among them, as well as itch, pain, time, and magnetoreception. These are all necessary for the average human to survive, although some survive quite well without them.

  Here it comes!

  But that’s also wrong. It’s possible there are twenty-six senses humans possess, or thirty-three, or fifty, or…

  Kusirikuy

  The last athlete to jump out of Mirror Station 07396 got to 1,024,409 miles from the star’s surface before bursting into flame. Not the best, but certainly not the worst.

  As his charred corpse was hanging there, waiting for the rope to burn away, a solar flare shot out and touched it. It began to glow.

  The fire found the rope, and traveled up it at an impossible speed.

  Alarmed, the inhabitants of Mirror Station 07396 cut the rope. It slowly floated away as the fire grew closer.

  Finally, someone noticed something odd. The fire wasn’t burning the rope. They realized it wasn’t fire. It was light.