# Chapter 21 Convenient-Invention Fact-Check

`DIFF SCOPE: output/drafts/claude/chapter_21.round_01.md vs output/chapters/chapter_21.md — 22 changed regions, 9 new factual assertions extracted`

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #1
post-edit text: `"MARCHETTI: 8"`
pre-edit text at that point: `"MARCHETTI — 8"`
class: detail
canon check: canon_sheet/continuity have no punctuation form for the box label; they require the eight catalogs return by non-Theo route.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE — punctuation normalization only; no story fact changed.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #2
post-edit text: `"June knew. Odile knew."`
pre-edit text at that point: `"Everyone who needed to know now knew..."`
class: knowledge
canon check: canon_sheet says Ch17 reveals to June; Odile knows the family/catalog fact and final setup; Theo knows June knows.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE — narrows a vague knowledge claim to established knowers.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #3
post-edit text: `"1 rtn'd 11/22"`
pre-edit text at that point: same fact embedded in the raw loan-sheet line
class: detail / timeline
canon check: canon_sheet entry 70 says one of nine catalogs is returned in Ch17, after the Tuesday Nov 24 rupture; tracker has the one returned before the eight outstanding.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE — the raw draft already contained this; the date is consistent with rupture-night return.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #4
post-edit text: `"8 rtn'd 12/4, via R. Kim / S. Rivera"`
pre-edit text at that point: `"8 rtn'd 12/4, via R. Calloway & S. Okafor."`
class: detail / names
canon check: canon_sheet entry 16 names Ruth Kim/Sam Rivera; continuity Ch20 says "Ruth and Sam visit... They take the eight remaining Odile catalogs... to return to the studio by a non-Theo route."
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE — this is a correction of a hallucinated name pair to canonical Ruth/Sam.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #5
post-edit text: `"Ruth carried the box. Sam carried Ruth's bag and complained about the stairs."`
pre-edit text at that point: same
class: detail
canon check: continuity Ch20 says Ruth/Sam took the eight catalogs; no tracker specifies who carried box/bag at the studio door.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE — minor arrival blocking derives from their off-page return route and does not contradict canon.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #6
post-edit text: `"no more preparation than she gave a wall"`
pre-edit text at that point: same except look-direction wording
class: motivation / characterization
canon check: story_bible/style card: Odile "conducts through logistics" and "makes people stand where truth has better light"; she does not cushion.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE — characterization, not a new plot fact.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #7
post-edit text: `"Study - J. Park - begun wk 3, finished 12/4 - T. Brennan."`
pre-edit text at that point: same label text with em dashes
class: detail / object label
canon check: canon_sheet entries 30/33 establish hidden Week 3 study; chapter card requires it become finished faced-to-wall in Ch21.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE — label completes the planned Ch21 object state.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #8
post-edit text: `"He did not put it in a crate."`
pre-edit text at that point: raw text had a thesis line about "thirty-nine years"
class: motivation / action
canon check: chapter card says "the portrait is offered after the apology in Ch 22, not as the apology"; thread ledger says it must stay consent-governed.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE — this literalizes the required non-delivery; it does not invent a new route.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #9
post-edit text: `"If you'd rather not, I understand."` followed by `"The phone stayed dark"`
pre-edit text at that point: raw draft moved directly into a reply and scheduled Sunday
class: promise / timeline / character action
canon check: skeleton/chapter card seeds Ch22 diner but does not require the reply inside Ch21; Ch22 can now receive June's "Sunday. 9. Just coffee." without timeline contradiction.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE — the repair removes premature scheduling from Ch21 and leaves the diner setup as a protected next-chapter obligation.

## Verdict

NO-INVENTIONS.

## Revision Orders

None.
