# Counter-Strip Audit - Chapter 09

Pre/post delta: raw draft 2,874 words vs final chapter 2,725 words, -5.2%; no >20% compression warning.

Sampled cuts / replacements:

1. CUT: "nothing about the room remembered you" - justified by Positive Prose portable-thesis finding. Replacement leaves erasure for the dried-wall consequence (line 113). NO OVER-CUT.
2. CUT: "It's forty minutes if you don't talk to me" - justified by Comedy Doctor; replacement "Forty minutes. Eleven feet and change..." preserves June's competence without sitcom rhythm. NO OVER-CUT.
3. CUT: "the city growing a handle" / "You couldn't fail to move into a thing that didn't exist" - justified by Positive Prose and Claude-tic audit; final line 101 is more material. NO OVER-CUT.
4. CUT: "That's not advice" - justified by polished-dialogue finding; Asha's practical wrongness is stronger with "You catch up" (line 105). NO OVER-CUT.
5. CUT: "the way everyone did" - justified by Narrator-Publicist; removing universal validation improves critical distance. NO OVER-CUT.
6. CUT: raw "And if you pass on it, send her my name..." temporarily over-cut during Positive Prose repair; Round 2 caught it and final line restores the payoff seed: "If you pass, send her my name..." (line 105). OVER-CUT DETECTED AND REPAIRED.
7. CUT: "The cover had not worked..." - later removed after Dialogue Doctor Round 4 re-pressed interiority. It is not an over-cut because line 55 gives Asha's gaze and June's face-down action.

Mis-fire logging: no calibration update needed. The one over-cut was not a bad audit rule; it was an execution error corrected before commit.

Chapter verdict: CLEAN - no unrepaired over-cut.

REVISION ORDERS: None.
