Both inputs read. Here is the verification of the round-2 repair batch against the current chapter text.

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## Item 1 — Studies paragraph (`output/chapters/chapter_18.md:91`): **VERIFIED**

Current text:

> "Monday night she laid all five out on the table where the catalogs used to be and looked at them in a row. The row was good: the truest drawing she'd done since Week 6. She could already feel the leaving side of *After Class* in them, and she was not going to help it arrange itself. Left face up, they were studies. Pinned up, they could leave the room the way the flyer had, copied into windows and laundromats, saying something for her to people she had not chosen."

Against the order: the em-dash triplet is gone entirely. Of the three thesis labels, only "the leaving side of *After Class*" survives, which the order explicitly sanctioned ("cut the em-dash triplet to at most one term"); "counterweight" and the order's must-not-survive label ("the answer panel to a question she and Theo had set up together") are both gone. The studies→message hinge — previously asserted ("they would become a message") — is now routed through the order's sanctioned source (a): the flyer. "Copied into windows and laundromats" cashes out concretely against material already on the page — Sonia's window at `:85` ("Sonia's window had one of the flyers in it, low, by the register, crooked") and the laundromats at `:9` ("Forty of those existed. Some were now in laundromats"). The abstract "message" noun is also gone, replaced by what a circulating image actually does ("saying something for her to people she had not chosen"). The straight-line test passes on the revised passage: the conclusion now stands on the flyer's circulation history rather than on restated labels.

## Item 2 — Theo's text line (`output/chapters/chapter_18.md:15-17`): **VERIFIED**

Current text:

> "Theo texted at 11:40 that night. *Okay. No chair.*
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> She read it at the counter. He had left the chair empty and asked for nothing back. She plugged the phone in by the stove, in the kitchen, where it charged badly, and went to bed."

"Three words, nothing to argue with, nothing asked" is gone. The replacement, "He had left the chair empty and asked for nothing back," reports the content and the act — what Theo did and refrained from requesting — not the form, phrasing, count, or rhythm of his message, so it does not touch the reading guide §2 zero-tolerance rule ("comment on, characterize, or rate one another's language, phrasing, rhythm, or delivery"). June's perceptiveness is then carried by action per the rule's prescribed channel: she parks the phone where it charges badly and goes to bed. Checked the surrounding lines (`:13`, "Mara sent back a turkey and a heart and asked nothing else, and that was the part that cost") — that characterizes Mara's restraint as an act, not her language, and predates this repair in any case.

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**NEW-PRE-SOLVED-BLOCKERS-FROM-REPAIR: NONE** — the rewritten `:91` passage gathers (row quality, the felt pull, the face-up/pinned-up distinction, the flyer's circulation) before landing; the `:17` edit is two factual sentences inside a non-reflective beat and introduces no announced conclusion.

**DIALOGUE-DIAGNOSIS-WATCH: CLEARED**

**OUT-OF-SCOPE WATCH:** None new. The `:93` triplet cadence ("backs up, blank, and set") noted in the prior audit's watch counts is unchanged by this repair and remains logged there; not relitigated here.

**OVERALL: ORDERS-VERIFIED**
