Blood Sister: the finale (pp. 714–715)

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It’s hard to tell whether Boone and Bash’s applause is sarcastic. There’s that post-entertainment flurry of changed positions and stretched limbs and critical sallies. […] Hal holds up a hand for the kids to hang on, flipping through cartridge cases to see whether Low-Temperature Civics is up here. All the cases are clearly labelled.

Context

The viewing room's social ritual named as a genre of its own ("that post-entertainment flurry... critical sallies") — and Hal, with Blott waiting to report something disturbing from the tunnels, keeps flipping cases for the next father-cartridge. The séance outranks the plot.

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