the ravenous rebound and the feral late dinner
later when he does go off and get off he gets ravenous, and goes out to Father & Son Market for candy, or else floods his eyes with Murine and heads down to the Headmaster’s House for another late dinner with C.T. and the Moms, and eats like such a feral animal
Context
The other half of the schedule: skip the pre-dinner high and he can't eat; take it and he goes ravenous, buying candy or bolting a second late dinner and eating "like such a feral animal" while his mother reads the appetite as heartening. The whole domestic day is quietly organized around the habit's swings, its hungers and eye-flushings passing for a growing boy's healthy pack-it-away.