Fever dreams: visitors flit in and out, but never Ferocious Francis

texture · prob. 18 Nov YDAU

• When: prob. Wed 18 Nov YDAU, gray winter P.M., amid Gately's dream-and-memory delirium — the day before the dreamed visit of event 10.
• What: In the wash of Gately's worsening fever, the absence is registered in one clause: "Visitors flit in and out, but never Ferocious Francis or Joelle van D." — the two people Gately most wants at the bedside are exactly the two who have not yet come. A single-line referenced appearance that sets up the payoff of event 10.