Hal at the Ennet House door, seeking a Substance-Anonymous meeting schedule

pivotal · 17 Nov YDAU, just after 0830h

• When: 17 Nov YDAU, just after 0830h
• What: Some days into forced withdrawal, Hal walks down to Ennet House (in Gately's medical absence) and knocks — an upscale, tanned/windburned kid with the whitest Nikes, ironed creased jeans, frozen slicked hair, and a woolly-white jacket lettered "A.T.E." [sic — as printed]. He asks Johnette F. for, or to borrow/Xerox, a Substance-Anonymous meeting schedule, framing it as idle/speculative "just something to do" (Johnette reads it as textbook Denial). Visible withdrawal: burbly, "oversalivated" speech of "somebody who'd just lately put down the pipe and/or bong," green around the gills, clear saliva running over his lip as he fights to enunciate "whom." Hal's first move toward recovery; keyed to n324.