Completely deaf and perfectly fine with who she was, as it happened - but she was superb at reading lips as a result.
You do, but you also need to realize you're not just anything. Nobody is, and the fact that they don't realize it makes the world a lot worse than it should be. But you, in particular? You're meant for more.
She'd read the files. Including the ones where more senior detectives tried to hide her observations, the little leaps of logic and hunches that turned out, miraculously, to be right. But she'd seen the pattern. This one, she was the one who saw things others didn't.
Natural instinct, or an ability? She neither knew nor cared - that was private business. It could help people. If properly trained.
If you did, you'd be on the fast track to running a precinct by now. At least, if you work on that chip you're carrying around on your shoulder. And also maybe hibernate for the winter.
Indelicate? Yes. But life was short and she'd been there herself. Held back, either because she was deaf or a woman, or because someone higher up was jealous of her skills - she'd been a boiling little cauldron when she started out.
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You do, but you also need to realize you're not just anything. Nobody is, and the fact that they don't realize it makes the world a lot worse than it should be. But you, in particular? You're meant for more.
She'd read the files. Including the ones where more senior detectives tried to hide her observations, the little leaps of logic and hunches that turned out, miraculously, to be right. But she'd seen the pattern. This one, she was the one who saw things others didn't.
Natural instinct, or an ability? She neither knew nor cared - that was private business. It could help people. If properly trained.
If you did, you'd be on the fast track to running a precinct by now. At least, if you work on that chip you're carrying around on your shoulder. And also maybe hibernate for the winter.
Indelicate? Yes. But life was short and she'd been there herself. Held back, either because she was deaf or a woman, or because someone higher up was jealous of her skills - she'd been a boiling little cauldron when she started out.