the Québec-team convergence noticing

Hal's anhedonic fixation on the Québec team's arrival — "We're going to get an announcement about the Québec kids very soon, I can feel it" — registers the fall's Québec-convergence at the personal level (the fundraiser opponent that becomes the A.F.R.-substitution of 183). The theme surfaces as a flat premonition on the VR5 floor; the fuller "everybody's suddenly mentioning Québec" noticing lands in its pair, n321. Thin but in-theme; kept per the plan's convergence-pairing.