Bus home from the rout, reading an SAT prep-guide beside Hal

texture · 6-7 Nov YDAU

• When: Night of 6 November into ~0030h 7 November YDAU — the bus back from Long Island
• What: E.T.A. has won the meet — the squads return "bearing their shields rather than upon them" — and on the warm homeward bus, while teammates recap, doze, clown, or yellow-highlight Flatland, Shaw and Hal each sit under their little seat-lights reading an SAT prep-guide. A quiet, studious note, and the only time the book seats him next to Hal as an equal in anything.