Mikey speaks at AA

The entire scene — Mikey's five-minute share about his temper, his kid's cast, the refused apology — is watched "blurred a bit through the linen": through Joelle's veil, from inside it. She is never named; the veil is the only trace of her, doing in narrative terms exactly what U.H.I.D. doctrine says it does in social ones — present, mediating everything, identifying nothing. Carlisle's structural point rides with it: Joelle entered the novel as an anonymous voice behind the Madame Psychosis mic, and if the veil-attribution holds this is her last appearance, anonymous too — the thread closing exactly as it opened, a presence the reader can't see.