The puzzle, a scene from Star Wars, was nearly half I completed. The box for it lay open close by, but Jacob never lio much as glanced at the picture of the finished jigsaw on I the lid. It wouldn't have helped if he did, because he was I assembling it face down. He would sit through the whole of Ithe Star Wars trilogy time and time again, entranced by the I fast-moving images and sounds coming from the TV screen, Ibut a static photograph from it held no interest for him. Ben was pretty sure that he recognised what it was, could Imake the association between one and the other, although The wasn't entirely certain. It was more likely that he simply egarded the picture itself as incidental. It was fitting together fie little cardboard shapes which engrossed him, not what was Dn them when he had finished. He could assemble them with he picture upside down or sideways on with equal dexterity. : seemed to be al the same to him. Ben watched from the other side of the lounge as he broke off from the puzzle and gazed at something out of the window, perhaps at the window itself.
