# Chapter 06 Characters-Wrong Repair Memo

Source audit: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_06.characters_wrong.md`

## Accepted Findings

- Sam arranged the Ruth/Theo walk too perfectly and paid no visible cost.
- Priya diagnosed Ben's rent-math flaw with too much editorial precision while her own move-in doubt stayed invisible.
- Theo caught too many usefulness reflexes before they cost him.
- June's boundary/agency lines were treated as pure wins with no ordinary friction.

## Repairs Applied

- Added cost to Sam after Ruth's equal good night: Sam pauses with the cup and shares the flat kindness produced by their arranged walk.
- Replaced Priya's clean Ben diagnosis with a self-implicating line: `I just don't trust a cheap room when I'm tired.`
- Let the clementine care partly fail: June pockets it unpeeled; Priya sees and lets it stay there.
- Made June's `We don't live together` cost a little warmth from Ben before he recovers.
- Let Theo actually step toward the crooked painting before Luis's correction strands him, then step back to the route card.

## Verification Pending

Rerun Characters-Wrong round 2 on current `output/chapters/chapter_06.md`.
