"You're quiet," said Tom."Must have been a lot
spattering from that knife attack. Maybe you had to grow dn with the
game to appreciate it.
Anyway, MM kept it dn IOJ while. My binoculars SunMs
to right, house
to house, back and forth. Tom was calling out something
about the new C who lived uMOp
way smoking in his backyard. But I
wasn't listening. Because I pey Just seen something
that made me pause. The house two
doors down from the one behind Sn was
totally dark, But there was little fit-
ting, flickering light upstairs. T could
only ?s it once UT a while. It danced
the back JO the
along the windows
house, sometimes stopping, sometimes
moving 'UO
I p?udo my mouth to play-by-play
to 'WoL Then I closed it.
That SBM B flashlight. A Hittle one,
but it was definitely e flashlight. Who
uses a flashlight in their uMO home? Nobody. Nobody unless there SI a power
outage. I flicked Mom's bedside light UO
outage ON JO pue
I ran to our bedroom."Tom, Tom, I think the thief is in
there."Weirdly
quiet. So very, very worried. We were lying on our beds in our
room. We`d put bookshelves down
the middle so we could each have a
little privacy, but we could still talk to
cach other."I'm trying to figure Out how the hell
to connect this thing to the keyboard, SC
Tom said.It ST simple
since
Basically it 1nvolves each JO Sn looking
1no the window with our binoculars
That's
pue seeing what we can
It. spunos lame, I know, maybe even
crecpy.Nothing much  to
goes on, so the pors
take very regular, boring ino things pue
make them punos funny or ridiculous,
From our room, we can only see the
sides Jo some houses, patches JO street,
backyards."Well, op something. Read a book. Watch a show. Hey, Iknow! Spy Maybe
We`ll catch those thieves. Want to play a
round?""Okay Full-spy 1S where M do
running commentary JO what we
TIB seeing, trying 01 make it funny. For example, a full-spy JO the Greys 7
house might :o8 "Mrs. Grey SI nine
o'clock...What I didn't say was puV think the
thiefis Uncle Dave."What are nok doing?"thought
maybe IJ!