The return: a small but univocal cheer

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pivotal · 20 Nov YDAU, morning

When: 20 Nov YDAU, in the locker room before the exhibition matches.
What: The corpus's last sight of him: "a small but univocal cheer went up from some of the players when Otis P. Lord appeared at the door, his cadaverous dad escorting him, O.P.L. out of post-op and pale but looking his old self, with just a thin little choker-width bandage of gauze around his neck from the monitor's removal and an odd ellipse of dry red skin around his mouth and nostrils." He does not overstay: "He came in and shook a few hands and used the stall next to Postal Weight and left; he wasn't playing today." Upright, welcomed, marked, and out of the Game.