# Complicate-Don't-Resolve Audit — Chapter 20

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Resolved here:
- Tasker yes/no: June says no.
- Asha referral permission: granted.
- New York path: accepted operationally.

Complications introduced or preserved:
- February remains financially exposed: "February is a blank line in my notebook" and later "FEB = coat."
- Theo repair remains untouched; the decision is deliberately independent of him.
- Asha may get Tasker, but outcome is offscreen and not guaranteed.
- June gives lease notice and commits to a colder room, raising material stakes for the armory/showcase.
- Catalogs are sent toward the studio but Odile acknowledgment reveal remains protected.

Strongest over-resolution candidate: the execution montage could make everything feel solved. It survives because every action creates consequence rather than comfort: W-9 delayed pay, Dana deposit, lease notice, December crating ask.

Chapter verdict: `COMPLICATES-WHILE-RESOLVING-DUE-THREAD`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
