# Consequence Test - Chapter 16

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- `STATE-CHANGED(intimacy / self-understanding / danger) - scene 1 ("Theo. You're famous") - type: proactive-to-reactive hybrid - change: Theo enters trying to survive the public post-kiss/fear assignment and exits knowing he has been honest only "In paint" while still choosing delay.`
  - Want: get through the fear assignment without exposing June, himself, or the nephew truth. Evidence: `"Do you want me to take the catalogs back?"` and the armed unsaid sentence `*Odile's my aunt*`.
  - Resistance: Odile's rule forces the wrong start to remain visible: `"Leave the wrong where I can find it."`
  - Turn: Theo recognizes the generic leaving painting is wrong and paints June's erased-wall fear over it: `"He had painted leaving, not June's fear"` and `"The real one went over it."`
  - Counter-turn: June's painting exposes Theo's useful-hands/blank-ground fear: `"the brightest light in the painting fell on the only thing in it he hadn't done."`
  - Exit condition: he delays the truth knowingly: `"He recognized the plan making itself useful and kept it anyway."`
  - `EXIT: ON-TURN` - the final lock/key action follows directly from the chosen delay; it does not explain the beat.

Chapter verdict: `ALL-SCENES-CHANGE`.

Weakest STATE-CHANGED element: the post-critique supply-table exchange risks repeating avoidance, but it survives because the avoidance has new cost and a named false plan.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
