He was in the garage because he helped Ron, because Ron had let him help (generosity toward the man-child often took the form of mock employment); he moved to the Jeep as much on a current of alcohol and shared energy as under his own power or the direction of his peers. Resentment and empathy and nostalgia and anxiety lived without their knowledge in their bodies, led them to stand just so, angled their shoulders thusly, opened or closed their faces, cut their hair, entered the prosody of their gestures, speech; no individual choreographed the sequence into which Darren was absorbed.
