the Feral Prodigy script: weeping over the ankle that always hurts

Injury-as-tuition at its rawest: the instruction includes "how to weep in bed trying to remember when your torn blue ankle didn't hurt every minute." The chronic ankle — the same joint the anthology tracks from 034 to 165 to 179 — is here a nightly grief, the pain so constant the boy can no longer recall its absence. The how-to hands this down as one more thing the regimen requires you to learn to do: cry, and keep playing on the ruined joint tomorrow.