[While she gets comfortable, Ben moves to the floor lamp, tilts the shade of it a little before bringing it back with him. He passes his hand experimentally over the bulb, once, and then shifts it again.
When he's satisfied, he glances back at Abigail, uncertain for but a moment. Then he twists his fingers together and raises them between the lamp and the wall, casting a long shadow away from himself.
And then moving his thumb and his fingers to make the duck's mouth open and close before it breaks apart and comes together again: a bear, clumsy with his inexperience but recognizable, menacing for a black outline on a blank wall. He says nothing, but walks the shadow-bear along the impromptu stage, as she once did for him in a church when she was young and he did not belong.]
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[While she gets comfortable, Ben moves to the floor lamp, tilts the shade of it a little before bringing it back with him. He passes his hand experimentally over the bulb, once, and then shifts it again.
When he's satisfied, he glances back at Abigail, uncertain for but a moment. Then he twists his fingers together and raises them between the lamp and the wall, casting a long shadow away from himself.
And then moving his thumb and his fingers to make the duck's mouth open and close before it breaks apart and comes together again: a bear, clumsy with his inexperience but recognizable, menacing for a black outline on a blank wall. He says nothing, but walks the shadow-bear along the impromptu stage, as she once did for him in a church when she was young and he did not belong.]