Lenz kills the Nucks' dog (pp. 588–589)
A first-floor light in the house across Brainerd lights up and backlights a figure in a sort of suit and metal wheelchair sitting right up next to the window in the sideways way of wheelchairs that want to get right up next to something, scanning the street and Nuck-swarmed yard. […] Another wheelchaired form has appeared just behind and to the right of the first seated backlit form across the street, and they’re both in a position to see Green up against the tree with his hand to his ear so it looks like he’s maybe receiving communiqués from some kind of earpiece.
Context
Lenz has cut the Nucks' dog's throat and bolted; Green is pinned behind a tree — and across Brainerd a lit window backlights first one, then two wheelchaired figures scanning the street, rendered with that eerily exact observation about "the sideways way of wheelchairs that want to get right up next to something." The A.F.R. logging the catastrophe from a window as it happens.