It's like that. Only . . . I hear more than most people here do. Mmm . . . maybe it's just . . . that I understand it more. So while Scowl hears my heartbeat, I hear . . . the way there are knots in his shoulders, and down his back. How he hasn't been sleeping. Things like that.
It's not magic, or anything special like other people here can do. I don't remember anyone able to do things like that, before.