She looked over at Dale. He had dozens of sheets of parchment spread around him, and was sketching pictures of them at the beach. As crude as his drawings were, she could easily recognize what he was illustrating—he was currently sketching one of the orange and silver boats, with people in it. Each of them had an exclamation point above its head.  She noticed that his drawings of objects were more recognizable and more detailed than his simple people and wondered if that was significant.