On the underclass bench in the locker room

texture · 3 Nov YDAU, 1640h

• When: 3 Nov YDAU, 1640h, after P.M. challenge matches.
• What: Ingersoll sits towel-kilted on the blond-wood bench — "Peter Beak and Evan Ingersoll and Kent Blott, twelve, eleven, ten," elbows on knees, "not taking part" in the upperclass bull session — until he pipes up with a scheduling factlet: "We get off Saturday for Interdependence Day Eve, though, the board said," drawing cocked upperclass heads. He dresses out of his small square underclassman's locker; when Stice gropes for something to throw at Freer, "Ingersoll tosses Stice a woppsed-up towel, trying to be helpful," and it lands on Stice's head and sits there. Hal notes here that the kid seems "wholly devoid of eyebrows."