Marlon Bain: inseparability, the eclipse at fifteen, and the brief substance phase

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texture · UNDATED (~ages 15-16, B.S.)

When: UNDATED (inseparable to ~15; the shared substance phase ~16, B.S.)
What: Per Bain, he and Orin "were inseparable until around age 15, when I reached my own zenith… and began to be able to beat him. He took it hard." They reunited briefly at ~16 for a heavy recreational-substance phase that "passed so quickly" for Orin "because he had finally entered puberty and had discovered the weaker sex and found he needed all his faculties and guile." Bain — Orin's sodden, perpetually-dripping doubles partner (scene 082, and the one Lyle "had told everything") — becomes Orin's stalest witness and the man who "practically hold[s] up a crucifix at any mention" of the family.