“They probably haven’t,” I replied, using my swarm to augment my voice, but not to carry it to the crowd.
“Probably not. But we have to ask, and time we spend asking is time we could spend helping them.”
Exactly.
I grasped the hand of a grungy old man who stood next to me, stretching his arm out. “Have you had your shots?”
He shook his head.
I used the pen to draw a ‘T’ on the back of his hand, circled it and drew a line through it. I pressed the pen into the old man’s hand, “You go to people and ask them the same question. If they haven’t had their shots, draw the same thing. If they have, just draw the T.”
Seems like a good pair of symbols to use. Quite straight-forward.
I saw a glimmer of confusion in his eyes. Was he illiterate? I turned his hand over and drew a capital ‘T’ on his palm.
Huh. Alright.
“Like that, if they have had their shots” I said, raising his hand for people to see, then turned it around. “Like that if they haven’t.”
And by doing this, she’s ensuring that people know he’s coming and what to expect. Good. 🙂
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