Object
Toby's Crumpled Legal Pad Sheets
Toby's fingers claw at fresh sheets ripped from yellow legal pads, scribbling wild theories on Hoynes' polling ploys and ticket whispers before fury overtakes him—he crumples the pages into tight, defeated balls and hurls them into the wastebasket, where they avalanche over prior failures, the overflowing bin pulsing with ink-smeared evidence of his nocturnal unraveling.
3 appearances
Purpose
Capturing urgent notes and draft fragments during obsessive late-night investigations into political rumors.
Significance
The discarded sheets mound as visceral proof of Toby's spiraling frustration and stonewalled probes, rhythmic rituals that propel his suspicions toward Leo and inexorably unearth the administration's buried MS secret.
Appearances in the Narrative
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