Shae flinched back from his touch, unused to gentleness from the men of the household. She blinked up at him and nodded slowly.
He seemed...very confident. Who knew, maybe he really would be able to do something about this.
She sighed when he asked her name. How was she supposed to sign this? She bit her lip and furrowed her brow as she thought. Carefully, she raised her hand and started to sign. A clenched fist, her thumb outside her other fingers. As she signed the letter, she mouthed slowly, S.
She signed it twice, then a third time, watching his face, hoping he understood. Then she moved onto the next letter, two fingers extended horizontally from her clenched fist, mouthing, H.
Her thumb moved to rest vertically against the side of her hand, her other fingers sliding down into another loose fist. A.
Another fist with her thumb in front of her fingers, but this time resting her fingertips almost on top of the line of her thumb. E.
She repeated each letter twice, then started from the beginning again. S-H-A-E