Hal, Accomplice!, the blizzard, Weston memories — "This is it,’ said Coyle. ‘The…"
‘This is it,’ said Coyle. ‘The tin cans and accusations I’m moving his stuff around are one thing. I’m going to Lateral Alice for a switch like Troeltsch did. This is the straw.’
Context
Coyle's escalation ladder — tin cans, moved stuff, now a bolted bed — is exactly the gradient Carlisle's scale-problem points at: the E.T.A. phenomena exceed the wraith's demonstrated bedside physics ("The wraith only moved small items at St. E's: a coke can, a photograph"), an objection he raises without resolving. Our files read the escalation as the wraith gaining strength or license; readings differ, both recorded.