All checks complete. Word count confirms 62,328 words total (the disposition's ~62K figure is accurate; the audit's "~69K" over-estimated), and ch24 is 4,695 words. Here is the verification.

# Final Cold-Read Repair Verification

VERDICT: CLEAN

## Concrete Findings
- **Finding 2 tenure: CLEAN** — ch01:101 now "I've worked for her eleven years"; ch21:39 "worked under my name for eleven years"; ch02:93 "the summer I was nineteen" + canon Theo=30 (30−19=11) reconcile. No regression: June's separate "six years [painting hiatus]" / "eleven years [looking since 17]" clocks are pre-existing, untouched, and outside this finding.
- **Finding 3 scarf: CLEAN** — both ch13 kiss-chapter instances flipped to black: "The black is doing things for you" (13:28), "folded over Mara's black scarf" (13:116). Sam's "orange scarf" (20:23) is distinct; ch18:43 explicitly attributes an orange *fleck* to "the interval wall in Week 6" paint, not scarf color.
- **Finding 5 origin story: CLEAN** — narration no longer asserts "invented nothing." Now: "Nothing they had said came from nowhere. The opening, sanded down to Thursdays. The label, given a count and a pencil… June had not built the story out of air" (04:119). Reshuffled-cover framing is legible; the 43-vs-51 / Thursday-vs-opening gaps read as June's deliberate construction.
- **Finding 6 class list: CLEAN** — ch02:5 "He had never taken the pen. After it, in Odile's blue ink: an ampersand, and *T. Brennan*." The ch01 "handed him the pen" gesture is now resolved; the receipt Theo signs later (02:163) stays a separate document.
- **Finding 7 catalog date: CLEAN** — ch21:11 "1 rtn'd 11/24" and "since the twenty-fourth"; checkout still "out Thurs 11/19." Live trackers agree: continuity.md:961 and rolling_summaries/chapter_21.md:3 both "11/24." No `11/22` survives in live prose or any tracker — remaining hits are only in snapshots, checkpoints, exports, and prior critiques.
- **Finding 8 Kessler: CLEAN** — ch09:97 now "Three weeks, maybe four." Payoffs consistent: ch20 "$3,840" (=32×40×3) and "three weeks minimum, maybe a fourth"; ch22:97 "Thirty-two an hour for three weeks." canon/thread/event-ripple all say three weeks.
- **Finding 9 assignment cards: CLEAN** — headers now TUESDAY ONE→EIGHT (ch03/05/07/10/13/16/19/24 verified). The only `WEEK N` string in any chapter is ch12's advance prep card "WEEK FIVE IS MEMORY…" (handed out pre-Tuesday), which is clearly not the easel weekly-card header.
- **Finding 10 Winter Kitchen: CLEAN** — the audit's "never named again after ch14" is a factual misread. ch24:132 names it in the reveal: "*Winter Kitchen* and the *Blue Stove*, hung backward…" This is load-bearing for the S-RULE-01/S-ODILE-01 payoff and brackets the ch01 title. Existing invocation is enough to reject; adding another would over-wink the motif cap.
- **Finding 11 residence: CLEAN** — ch20:83 "Back room's yours to sleep in, ten feet of wall in front, north light…" resolves where June lives after the Jan 31 move-out. Trackers updated ("back room to sleep in plus wall share").
- **Finding 12 copyedit/tic: CLEAN** — all headings numeric (`# Chapter 01`…`24`); class chapters still open with cards. No standalone `"Oh."` survives (grep clean; ch06's flagged beat is now "Ben blinked once," 06:57). The earned confession `"Oh,"` (comma) is preserved at ch22:127; ch01's "Oh, we're not" is not a one-word reaction.

## Risk-Accepted Findings
- **Finding 1 length/logistics: RESIDUAL-RISK** — measured 62,328 words, ~13K under the 75K floor (band 75–88K, ~80K target): a genuine committed-element miss, but not an assembly blocker. The manuscript is coherent and complete; the remedy (+6–18K of new Act-2/middle scene) would reopen the post-Batch-4 macro-freeze and re-trigger every gate just verified clean. Not a repair order. Note: the disposition's ~62K is the accurate figure (audit's "~69K" over-counted); the final report must disclose the shortfall and likely market complaint, as the disposition commits.
- **Finding 4 coda length/load: RESIDUAL-RISK** — ch24 measures 4,695 words (~34% over the 3,500 ceiling; ch23 is 3,760). Long and dense, but every beat is a planted final-gate payoff (S-ODILE-01, S-PORTRAIT-01, blue dish, Ruth's line, After Class reception, first snow), sectioned into short `---` movements. The June/Odile page-tear is the designated S-ODILE-01 reveal, not an "imported" fresh conflict as the audit read it. Splitting into a 25th chapter/epilogue contradicts the user-directed 24-chapter structure and reopens the freeze. Divisive craft choice to name in the report, not an assembly blocker.

## Required Repairs
`None.` Both risk-accepted items are residual risks, not blockers; carry them into final assembly as disclosed deviations (length shortfall and long compressed coda), not repairs.
