the supine morning: the conditioned dread hasn't discharged
For some reason the fact that something as major as a midterm room-switch could have taken place without my knowing anything about it filled me with dread. There were a few glitters of a possible incipient panic-attack again.
Context
The withdrawal-panic of scene 170 is still live, and now it fires on nothing — a room-switch he missed. "There were a few glitters of a possible incipient panic-attack again": the match-conditioned dread E.T.A. built into him keeps discharging off-court, the body primed and misfiring at trivia. The regimen's specialized fear has no off-switch and no proper target once it's loose in a dorm hallway.