The pre-dawn front-office duet: Joelle expounds U.H.I.D. doctrine and declares herself "deformed with beauty"

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pivotal · 11 Nov YDAU, 0450h

When: YDAU (2009), Wednesday 11 Nov, 0450h
What: Three days into Ennet House, Joelle trades pasts with Gately at the overnight desk. She lays out the whole U.H.I.D. doctrine — the donning ceremony, the veil as "a Type and a Symbol," powerlessness over the need to hide, "hide openly," the prayed-for darkness reducing her to "a voice among other voices" — diagnoses Gately's buried shame at thinking himself unbright, refuses his demand for a straight No on what's behind the veil, and closes with "What position did you play?"