# Ending Quality Audit - Chapter 05

- LANDS - scene 1 / chapter-final - final lines quoted: `The newsprint did not want to roll as tight as the first drawing had... He had not watched her decide. She was nearly sure he had not watched her decide. / June went down the stairs with both drawings under her arm and Mara's scarf still on...` (lines 109-111) - what closes the beat: June chooses to keep the blind-contour page and physically carries it out with the prior drawing. Pressure it cuts on: private possession of attention plus uncertainty about whether Theo noticed. Strongest weak candidate considered: `which had not been the plan either` (line 111). It survives because it names a concrete changed plan through carried objects, not a summary moral.

Chapter verdict: ENDINGS-CLEAN.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
