Fackelmann's scam and the wraith's return
He dreams he looks in a mirror and sees nothing and keeps trying to clean the mirror with his sleeve. […] He dreams there’s people in his room but he’s not one of them.
Context
Cubist flu-dream fragments right after the wraiths vanish: Gately dreaming himself into the wraith's condition — casting no reflection, present in his own room but not among its people. Dream-logic rather than wraith diction, but the shapes are revenant shapes.