Reluctant Big Buddy of record of Evan Ingersoll

texture · STANDING

• When: STANDING — the YDAU year's Big-Buddy arrangement, in place through the fall
• What: Hal in effect took on Ingersoll by trading Todd Possalthwaite to Axford off the books, because Axford found he so despised the Ingersoll kid, for some unanalyzable reason, that he was struggling against a horrible compulsion to close a door on the boy's fingers — and came to Hal almost in tears about it. Technically Ingersoll remains Axford's charge and Possalthwaite Hal's; 122 still styles Axford "Ingersoll's B.B. of record," and in Tavis's waiting room both Hal and Axford remain aware Ingersoll is technically in Axhandle's contingent. This standing, unexamined animus is the fuse under events 10 and 12.