Hal as accomplice; the Weston house (p. 943)

Coyle reporting from breakfast, morning of the blizzard: Stice's forehead, frozen to the window all night and torn free, is raw enough to kill appetites across the dining hall — while Hal, horizontal on the floor, can't stop finding it funny. The street idiom (map = face) has fully colonized E.T.A. student speech, three registers and half a state away from the North Shore crews it came from — the vocabulary itself migrating across the book's map.