The Year of No Murder: October
In which autumn leads to new beginnings and old problems.
[See previous chapter.]
[See chapter one.]
Mabel doesn’t walk and sign in the city. Theo does, when he wants to tell her about something exciting, like his recent trip to the eye doctor—she'd asked about his new glasses, and lost the plot almost immediately.
“The doctor said what?” She doesn’t stop, this time, and keeps her gaze fixed on him.
Theo’s hand flies out, catches Mabel’s shoulder, narrowly averts her collision with a lamppost. His reusable grocery bag slides down his forearm and the corners of the paperbacks inside poke her in the ribs.
He frowns at her, lets go.
She frowns back. “Why don’t you ever walk into stuff when you’re signing to me?”
Amusement curls in the corners of his lips. “I use my—”
“Seeing around me," he rephrases. “Peripheral vision.”