Pemulis catches Avril and Wayne — "I’m saying there’s a very young…"
‘I’m saying there’s a very young Ortho in there with some very real abandonment-issues who needs some nurturing and championing from the older Ortho instead of indulging in fantasies of omnipotence.’ ‘I ain’t omnipotent and I don’t want to X no Goddamn Barbiedoll.’ Then Dark’s voice went way up and cracked as he said something about his bed.
Context
The session's end, still through the door: offered inner-child nurturing, Stice — voice going way up and cracking — finally tries to say the thing he actually came about: his bed. The haunting surfaces for one clause and the scene moves on; Rusk's uselessness here is why Stice takes his "objects" problem to Lyle and Hal instead, and why the phenomena escalate unwitnessed.