Colton started with a mental list of everything he’d do if he had no limits. Take Ben to the moon, obviously, which was not an option. He could buy a couple of entries into the Moon Lotto that always ran this time of year, but that was not an ideal replacement since it would just be a disappointment. Millions of people played. It would only be okay to give Ben something like that if it was an aside to something else.
And then Colton figured it out. If he couldn’t take Ben to the moon, he’d bring the moon to Ben. He’d heard Ben talk enough about it over the years, seen pictures, read articles. He’d recreate something here, in their home, and he’d do his best to make it as much like the real thing as possible.
Most things, of course, were out. He couldn’t give Ben a returned-from-extinctio
