There are a thousand tiny ways a person can accidentally hurt themselves throughout the day, if they can't feel their body interacting with anything. They can burn their tongue on too-hot coffee, cut themselves slicing tomato, catch a finger in a door, step on a nail.
And never know a thing until someone pointed it out, or until they saw blood.
It's annoying, but he's learned how to live with it, mostly; is cautious about things most people take for granted, relies on four other senses to get him through the day without needing to be hospitalized, or scolded by Eleanor, so it's with a certain degree of resignation that he lifts the coffee to his lips, knowing that even if it is too hot, it'll probably be fine -- until Audrey holds out her hand, unquestioning, like he'll just hand it over.
After a second's pause, he hands it over, watching her instead of the rising steam.
"You think this place doesn't have a golf course?"
Surely the beach, the stables, the baseball field and the shooting range don't need to be listed off as other things he wouldn't have expected a bar to have.
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There are a thousand tiny ways a person can accidentally hurt themselves throughout the day, if they can't feel their body interacting with anything. They can burn their tongue on too-hot coffee, cut themselves slicing tomato, catch a finger in a door, step on a nail.
And never know a thing until someone pointed it out, or until they saw blood.
It's annoying, but he's learned how to live with it, mostly; is cautious about things most people take for granted, relies on four other senses to get him through the day without needing to be hospitalized, or scolded by Eleanor, so it's with a certain degree of resignation that he lifts the coffee to his lips, knowing that even if it is too hot, it'll probably be fine -- until Audrey holds out her hand, unquestioning, like he'll just hand it over.
After a second's pause, he hands it over, watching her instead of the rising steam.
"You think this place doesn't have a golf course?"
Surely the beach, the stables, the baseball field and the shooting range don't need to be listed off as other things he wouldn't have expected a bar to have.