the post-Stice debrief: is your stock going up or down

The market underneath the pedagogy. Hal wants a "bead on why he'd had to play The Darkness publicly," because the exhibition is really a valuation event — "this endless tension among E.T.A.s about how the coaches are seeing you, gauging your progress—is your stock going up or down." The developing body is an appreciating or depreciating asset, and a match is where the coaches reprice it. Every set is watched from above by the men keeping the ledger, and the player never stops feeling the ledger being kept.