SCENE B REPAIR VERDICT: CLEAN

- **FAKE-SHARP:** `"A true question, a competent one, and asked tonight, of all nights, it had nothing to do with ceiling height."` — survives. This is the strongest remaining counter-candidate, and it carries a faint negation-gloss ("had nothing to do with"), but it fails the false-profound test in June's favor: it does not use the "Not X. Y." fragment shape, and it lands on nothing abstract. It negates the surface reading of a concrete object (the ceiling-height question) and then *withholds* the deeper beat rather than aphorizing it — the subtext is handed to "tonight, of all nights" (Thanksgiving, alone) and to the drafted-but-unsent email. Per the platitude test it delivers information the gesture alone can't (the competent question is a pretext), tied to a literal referent, not significance-announced. The critique's original defect — labeling the *non-send* from outside — is fixed: the non-send itself now stands unlabeled as "She left it in drafts and closed the laptop." ("It wasn't the joint piece and she didn't let it try to be." is a second negation but resolves to concrete fact + June's agency, not a scenic-route landing.)

- **FORMULA RESIDUE:** Gone. "Not a refusal. A held edge." is cut, and it is not replaced by another polished negation/tag — the beat now ends on the plain gesture the order specified, and the surviving gloss is concrete and self-interrupting per June's card, resolving to the physical thing she won't send (the floor-plan email) rather than an abstraction. The batch-wide "hold" abstraction is also cleared: no "hold"/"held" remains in the excerpt.

- **REVISION ORDERS:** None.
