Closeted with the journalist — then AWOL

texture · 11 & 20 Nov YDAU

• When: 11 Nov, ~2100h (the evening of the match), and the morning of 20 Nov.
• What: Two offstage beats close her arc. The night of the exhibition, Avril tells Mario: "'Your poor Uncle Charles has been with Thierry and this magazine person since this afternoon.'" — hours closeted with Tavis and the disguised operative she has privately made. Then, nine days later, on the chaotic morning of the relocated Québec exhibition at M.I.T.: "Thode had had an hysterical tantrum after breakfast because Poutrincourt hadn't showed for the Females' pre-match Staff thing and looked to be AWOL." The book records the absence and explains nothing — the prorector who saw through the story's spy is, by 20 November, simply missing from it. (Any causal link between the detection and the disappearance is adjacency only; the text never states one.)