It's easiest to tell when his family is doing it.

When they become the cacophony instead of the lull that soothes his thoughts, both unmissable and unfocused upon. When they pull upon noise to drown themselves out, the one act carnival trick with many languages, and can not help calling his attention to them even more precisely with their cloaks.



But they have the right. He doesn't even need to remind himself.

"Downstairs, in the garage." Going through a pile of cd cases.