Atton can only hear four heartbeats from inside the house - he and Guppy make up at least two, and the boy Rad surely another one. He can only presume the mother is the fourth.
With that same enhanced hearing, conversations outside the house are fairly easy to hear, which is why Atton starts heading for the stairs when he hears Will talking to the gang members.
He doesn't actually go down - he believes in Will's ability to talk them down and get them to go away. But he's ready in case things go wrong.
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Date: 2009-07-30 01:23 am (UTC)With that same enhanced hearing, conversations outside the house are fairly easy to hear, which is why Atton starts heading for the stairs when he hears Will talking to the gang members.
He doesn't actually go down - he believes in Will's ability to talk them down and get them to go away. But he's ready in case things go wrong.