# Mentor-Scene Check - Chapter 16

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SCENE Week 6 studio - elder: Odile, juniors: class / Theo / June
- Marker 1 perfectly calibrated anecdote: `ABSENT` - no anecdote; only material rules and critique.
- Marker 2 aphorism delivery: `HIT, but material-bound` - `"Leave the wrong where I can find it"` and `"Pairs hang together or they lie"` are sharp, but both are painting/hanging instructions with plot consequences.
- Marker 3 graceful reception: `ABSENT` - Theo mispaints first; June leaves without the conversation; the class goes raw and quiet.
- Marker 4 everyone-improved closure: `ABSENT` - `"On the way out, nobody said *fear*"` and Theo withholds the truth.
- Marker 5 missing mess: `ABSENT` - mess ledger includes public discomfort, partial readings, wrong first pass, and Odile not explaining what she knows.
- `MESS LEDGER: "You started with furniture"`, `"Do you want me to take the catalogs back?"`, `"I'll send you the layout"` show friction and failed transmission.
- Scene verdict: `HUMAN`.

Chapter verdict: `MENTORS-HUMAN`.

Cleanest transmitted advice: `"Paint through it"`; it is offset by Theo's delayed honesty and the underpainting becoming evidence against him.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
