# Cover-the-Names Voice Test - Chapter 18

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- `VOICE-DISTINCT — June narration` — exact domestic/craft nouns identify June without names: `"Cold water, no wringing"`, `"the doorframe out of square"`, `"raw-umber gray"`, `"Wet spackle sat white"`.
- `VOICE-DISTINCT — June dialogue/texts` — clipped evasive lines: `"I'm painting."`, `"I don't know about Tuesday."`, `"I don't think I—"`.
- `VOICE-DISTINCT — Mara` — hosting logistics and tactical overexplanation identify her: `"Luis made too much. There's pie under the turkey. Don't tilt it."` and `"The blue dish is mine... Not the foil."`
- `VOICE-DISTINCT — Asha` — rate/deadline shorthand identifies her: `"headcount by the 15th"` and `"before the 4th gives me time to reshuffle."`
- `RISK-CLEARED — shared witty register` — post-repair text does not give June, Mara, Asha, and Ruth the same punchline syntax; Claude Comedy/Dialogue verifications closed the prior drift.

Chapter verdict: `VOICE-HOLDS`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
