She blinked, almost as startled by the fact that he knew sign as she had been by his sudden movement previously. She grinned a moment later, giving him a quick hug, careful of his arms, moving back again and signing: I can hear, I don't talk.
She wiped the board clean before returning it to the fridge, making sure it was square before pointing at him with a: you hungry? Her fingerspelling was more recognizable than her whole words, since she used some combination of American Sign Language and modified army hand-signals, though at the moment the ASL was predominant.