Mario's walk: Eschaton, teeth, and urine

Avril's little triad names the academy's three simultaneous body-crises in one breath: "Eschaton, teeth, and urine." The game that broke faces, Hal's failing dental architecture, and the drug-testing that has an official grabbing ears — all three are troubles of the athletic body and its institution, filed together as the week's damage. It's a neat index of how much of academy life is, finally, about what's happening to and inside these young bodies: their play, their mouths, their piss.