# Consequence Test - Chapter 15

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- `STATE-CHANGED(knowledge / self-understanding / commitment) — scene 1 ("The tote strap quit on the third-floor landing.") — type: proactive — change: June enters trying to rationally evaluate the Philadelphia offer and exits with the formal terms, a hard deadline, and a sharper recognition that the offer rewards her room-running competence more than her own making.`
  - Want: evaluate the offer without letting desire/avoidance decide for her. Evidence: `"NIA—QUESTIONS"` with `pay, dates, scope, press`.
  - Resistance: the offer is materially good, not rejectable as insult. Evidence: `"W-2, full-time, six months funded"`, `"Keys on day one"`, `"After-hours studio access. It's in writing."`
  - Turn: the tempting detail is not the wall but maintenance. Evidence: `"The line that interested her was true up the Vandercook. Not the wall. The press."`
  - Exit condition: no clean answer, but an external clock now governs the next arc. Evidence: `"FRI DEC 4 / NOON"` and `"Fifteen days. She turned off the big light and left the deadline pinned under the jar she hadn't opened."`
  - `EXIT: ON-TURN` — the final action pins the deadline under the still-unopened mineral spirits jar. The closest overrun candidate is `"There was the yes that solved seven things..."`; it survives because it clarifies the unsolved dilemma before the receipt/jar action, not after it.

Chapter verdict: `ALL-SCENES-CHANGE`

Weakest STATE-CHANGED scene: the whole chapter is one phone-and-text scene, so its risk is static evaluation. It survives because the scene exits with new external obligation (`Friday, December 4, noon`) and new self-knowledge (June's interest landing on the press).

REVISION ORDERS: none.
