If there was such a thing as someone being more clueless than was humanly possible, then Eknie embodied that on the fateful morning. She had arrived in the dead of the night and had not slept at all, instead shooting cat monkey left and right and apparently imagining that she was just being so useful to everyone.
Ted felt that this feverish delusion of grandeur signified the departure of yet another person, departure from his life, departure from universe, a total and final disconnection from everything. He was so sick of her constant need to bother everyone just so that she could find something to do. He could not openly grimace in her presence, not yet, so he just smiled and claimed to be enjoying the bloodbath.
