He started, without planning to, showing her things.
Not performing — there was no tour-guide quality to it, no here is my world arranged for your admiration. It was more that the weeks began to include, in addition to Saturdays and the evening calls, occasional daytime moments when their paths crossed in ways that revealed the city from his angle.
Once, in early April, she was near the docks with Daniel for a school trip that had got its adult volunteer count wrong and needed bodies, and Leonardo happened to have a meeting at the shipping offices nearby and stopped by for twenty minutes. She watched him move through the dock environment — the workers who acknowledged him with the specific respect of people who knew he understood their work, the security that moved around him without cer
