Wonder

through the crowd. It had been a long time since I’d been out without
my hearing aids, and it felt like I was miles under the earth. It felt
like that song Miranda used to sing to me: Ground Control to Major
Tom, your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong ...
I did notice as I walked that Amos had stayed right next to me. And
Jack was close on the other side of me. And Miles was in front of us
and Henry was in back of us. They were surrounding me as we
walked through the crowds of kids. Like I had my own emperor’s
guard.