Poor Tony's seizure (pp. 305–306)
His head inflated hugely and creaked as it stretched, inflating. Then the pain (seizures hurt, is what few civilians have occasion to know) was the sharp end of a hammer. There was a squeak and rush of release inside his skull and something shot from him into the air.
Context
Poor Tony's grand-mal on the Gray Line: Carlisle files the squeak in his squeak-omen thread — the same signature that sounds as the A.F.R.'s chair-squeak under the mountainside serial — his reading, recorded not adopted: the squeak here is intracranial, a body breaking, not a wheelchair, but it's the motif's darkest sounding.