Supper at the E.T.A. dining hall
Ortho (‘The Darkness’) Stice is still staring into his salad. If you could open Stice’s head you’d see a wheel inside another wheel, gears and cogs being widgeted into place. Stice has a secret suspicion about a secret that has more to do with the actual table than with the people at the table. A lot of the guys interpret his intense distraction as Stice’s still being in the magic can’t-miss Zone from this P.M.’s match.
Context
Stice's dawning, unshareable sense that the haunting is about things — "the actual table" — while everyone misreads his distraction as post-match Zone. The scene's little model of how the wraith stays invisible: every symptom gets a normal explanation.