Aftermath authority: the pluck problem and the man they dread running up to

texture · 8-11 Nov YDAU

• When: The notification problem is the I-Day gala evening (8 Nov); the tunnel-detail dread is 11 Nov, 1625h.
• What: The Eschaton debacle routes twice through Nwangi as designated authority. Upward, he is half of the unlucky pair who must inform the Coach: Loach and Dunkel have told Avril, "and Schtitt to be told by whichever of Nwangi and deLint first works up the pluck" — even the enforcers need pluck facing Schtitt. Downward, he is what discipline looks like to the sub-14s serving their punitive trash detail: when Gopnik's punch leaves little Traub weeping, the whole crew's project becomes keeping him amused and "not retreating back up to Nwangi and making a high-pitched stink." Nwangi never appears in the tunnels; he doesn't need to. He is the adult at the top of the stairs.