# Surprise Audit - Chapter 16

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- `SURPRISES - category: reversal of expected emotional object - THE MOVE: "The painting could hang in any hallway. That was the problem" - location: fear-painting first pass - why unpredicted: the chapter card promised generic leaving as a wrong-first image, but the prose lets Theo believe briefly in its competence before rejecting it on artistic grounds - why coherent: June's Ch12 erased-wall memory is already in canon and waiting to become the truer fear.`
- `SURPRISES - category: quiet room-pressure payoff - THE MOVE: "Ben skipped zone three of the flyer route entirely." - location: class aftermath - why unpredicted: Ben's route is introduced as comic flyer distribution; its abandonment becomes the room's rawness meter - why coherent: Ben's voice card owns plans/routes, and the room has just seen both fear canvases.`
- `SURPRISES - category: failed confession by substitution - THE MOVE: "She wants the chairs in eights for December. For the show. I'll send you the layout." - location: supply table - why unpredicted: the narration arms the three-word truth `Odile's my aunt`; Theo answers with layout logistics - why coherent: Theo repeatedly converts fear into usefulness.`

Chapter verdict: `SURPRISES-PRESENT`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
