# Ending Quality Audit - Chapter 14

- LANDS - scene 1 - final lines quoted: "He typed *80lb matte* for Ben, sent it, and put the phone face-down next to the clipboard." - what closes the beat: Theo converts public romantic pressure into print logistics - pressure it cuts on: public proof ignored as logistics. Strongest weak candidate: the phone-face-down action could be too neat, but it is literal avoidance rather than a gloss.
- LANDS - scene 2 - final lines quoted: "She set a pencil beside the ground and left it there. The subject sat on the table between them, titled and unsolved." - what closes the beat: they choose a ground and keep the joint work open - pressure it cuts on: intimacy deferred into future work. Strongest weak candidate: "titled and unsolved" risks interpretation, but it is attached to the literal untouched pencil and ground.
- LANDS - scene 3 - final lines quoted: "`Which years?` / `All of them.` / She picked her box back up and went out the way she'd come, and that was the entire visit." - what closes the beat: Odile commands the complete catalog stack - pressure it cuts on: deniable teacher logistics as trap. Strongest weak candidate: "entire visit" is summary-like, but it underlines Odile's surgical brevity.
- LANDS - scene 4 - final lines quoted: "`Both. I'll count both before Tuesday.` / She got the door with her free hand... nine gray spines of Odile Marchetti leaving the building under the arm of June Park" - what closes the beat: June physically leaves with the catalog stack - pressure it cuts on: armed discovery leaving the building. Strongest weak candidate: the long window sentence risks summary, but its inventory of tote/catalog/flyer is consequence, not mood.
- LANDS - chapter-final - final lines quoted: "On the pickup sheet he wrote... *Catalogs (9) - J. Park - out Thurs 11/19.* He left the *returned* column blank... measured a third time anyway." - what closes the beat: Theo logs the dangerous loan and repeats measurement because control has failed - pressure it cuts on: competence unable to undo consequence. Strongest weak candidate: "measured a third time anyway" could be a stillness close; it survives because it is a stress action with the blank return column immediately before it.

Chapter verdict: `ENDINGS-CLEAN`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
