# Ending Quality Audit - Chapter 13

- LANDS - scene 1 - final lines quoted: "Tonight she had been asked to leave one unrescued and still worth looking at." What closes the beat: June's decision to let Theo's childhood memory stay ordinary and damaged. Pressure it cuts on: honoring entrusted material without making it kinder. Strongest weak candidate: "still worth looking at" risks summary, but it is the explicit result of the panel's visible details and the assignment.
- LANDS - scene 2 - final lines quoted: "On the way back, she did not look again, which was the most obvious thing she had done all night." What closes the beat: June chooses not to keep looking at Theo's painting. Pressure: desire under denial. Strongest weak candidate: "most obvious thing" is interpretive, but it is tied to a physical route past the canvas.
- LANDS - scene 3 - final lines quoted: "June watched all of them become public by degrees..." What closes the beat: the joint-piece subject becomes socially legible. Pressure: public label before private clarity. Strongest weak candidate: "did not require confession" could explain, but it sets the flyer-photo danger rather than closing the chapter.
- LANDS - scene 4 - final lines quoted: "'Tomorrow,' Mara said, and let her go." What closes the beat: June delays the kiss photo's circulation, turning social exposure into a one-day clock. Pressure: public record held but not erased. Strongest weak candidate: "Nothing in the room was waiting politely..." is a personification, but it sharpens the need for June to answer now.
- LANDS - chapter-final - final lines quoted: "The signal turned green. June stepped off the curb with him, the phone dark in the bag." What closes the beat: June physically moves forward with Theo while concealing the offer. Pressure: desire and departure share the same bag. Strongest weak candidate: "phone dark in the bag" risks symbolic closure, but it is also the literal hidden object and live next-chapter engine.

Chapter verdict: `ENDINGS-CLEAN`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.

