Stice stuck to the window (p. 864)
I could hear faint sounds of early-morning weeping in certain rooms beyond my line of sight. Lots of the top players start the A.M. with a quick fit of crying, then are basically hale and well-wrapped for the rest of the day.
Context
Hal walking the curved subdorm hall before 0500: at the academy of promise, the day is scheduled to begin with weeping, absorbed into the conditioning routine like stretching. Depression as ambient infrastructure — the frame through which the whole Stice episode is heard, weepers keening behind doors throughout.