Blamed for Stice's wandering bed; sidelined in the infirmary

pivotal · ~7-8 Nov YDAU, the weekend

• When: the ~7-8 Nov weekend — reported 8 Nov as "the last two nights," and he is "out of the infirmary after the weekend" by the 9-Nov drills
• What: Stice, driven to the edge by going to sleep with his bed against one wall and waking with it against a whole nother wall, has already had a whole series of beefs with Coyle, having figured clearly that Coyle was moving the bed around in his sleep. Then Coyle's discharge puts him in the infirmary and out of the room for two nights — and the bed keeps relocating anyway, with ball-can alarms ending up stacked in a neat pyramid. Coyle's medically enforced absence is his alibi: it eliminates the mundane explanation and sends Stice to Lyle with three grimmer ones. The comic condition quietly becomes the poltergeist thread's control experiment.