Verdict up front: the Round 1 surgery mostly took — Ch 08 now has a real keep/destroy spine, the four fear objects exist and three of them are good, the scarf/fear-canvas/portrait object chain keeps the rupture physical, the coda loads are genuinely redistributed (Priya/Ben to 26, Theo–Odile to 25, Luis to 19), and Odile's hidden-knowledge behavior is internally consistent across every card she touches. But six high findings remain, and three of them are contradictions *between* cards (the offer clock, the Ruth cap, Theo's knowledge state) that the drafting lanes cannot resolve without inventing canon. All are line-level fixes; nothing requires re-architecting.

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VERDICT: REVISE BEFORE DRAFTING

FINDINGS

1. high — The Philadelphia offer clock contradicts itself across Ch 15/18/22
   evidence: Ch 15: "evaluate the Philadelphia offer... before Nia's answer-by-Friday
   deadline"; close: "writes the Friday noon deadline on the back of a receipt and still
   cannot answer it." Ch 15 sits between Nov 17 and Nov 24, so that Friday is Nov 20 or
   27. Ch 18 (Nov 25–30): "does not send the final refusal yet." Ch 22 (early Dec):
   "she declines Nia."
   why it matters: either the deadline passes unremarked — deflating Ch 15's only clock
   and making Nia's program-staffing urgency fake — or three chapters of drafting must
   improvise an extension. This is the earned-stay machinery; the Ch 22 decline is a
   protected thread and cannot sit on a dead deadline.
   revision order: set Nia's answer-by date to Friday, December 4 (Dec 1 is Week 7, so
   the clock stays live through Ch 18–21 and Ch 22's decline lands on deadline day).
   One line each on Ch 15, Ch 18 ("deadline still ahead"), Ch 22 ("declines before the
   deadline expires").
   acceptance test: a cold reader can date the deadline and confirm June answers Nia
   before it passes, with no off-page extension required.

2. high — Ch 13's kiss forcing mechanism violates the deck's own Ruth-watch cap
   evidence: Global recurring-risk rule: "Ruth's suspicion may actively pressure only
   Ch 04, Ch 06, Ch 11, and Ch 20." Ch 13 conflict: "Ruth notices June's recoil"; scene
   design: "Conflict: Ruth notices distance and Mara's camera makes refusal visible."
   Ruth is listed as scene conflict — that is active pressure, unsanctioned and
   unnumbered (04/06/11 are beats 1–3; Ch 20 is beat 4 and must be non-suspicion).
   why it matters: Ch 13 is a dual-draft chapter; two lanes will resolve the rule-vs-card
   conflict differently. And a fifth suspicion beat is exactly the wise-NPC depreciation
   the cap exists to prevent.
   revision order: make Mara's camera and the assembled cohort carry the full forcing
   load (a flyer photo demands couple-adjacency; refusal is publicly visible). Ruth may
   silently register the recoil — no pressure, no line.
   acceptance test: Ch 13's kiss is forced entirely by Mara/cohort mechanics; the
   Ruth-watch count across the book remains exactly 04/06/11/20.

3. high — The joint piece's leaving/kept-ready premises are packed into Ch 13's
   agreement and absent where they should emerge
   evidence: Ch 13 new terms: "`After Class` subject agreement - the same studio room,
   June's panel as seen by someone leaving, Theo's as kept ready for return" — but the
   three-scene design has no slot for it. Ch 18 says only "studies of the agreed studio
   room alone"; Ch 19 only "begins the shared canvas from the studio-room subject
   agreement alone." Neither names a premise.
   why it matters: if the full allocation is dramatized at the midpoint, two not-yet-
   estranged people are diagramming the book's thesis pre-rupture; if drafting skips it,
   the premises exist nowhere and the coda's load-bearing artifact gets improvised. The
   whole point of the two panels is that the opposed views arise from their separated
   states.
   revision order: Ch 13 originates subject only ("the room") as one compact beat inside
   the announcement flurry. Ch 18 gains a line: June's studies are the room as someone
   leaving it sees it. Ch 19 gains a line: Theo's underpainting keeps the room ready for
   return. Ch 25 gains the Round 1 outcome rule that was never applied: no character
   names the two-panel metaphor aloud.
   acceptance test: cards trace room-agreement (13) → June's leaving premise (18) →
   Theo's return premise (19) → both visible (25), and Ch 13 still has only three scenes.

4. high — Ch 16's wrong-first canvas requires knowledge Theo does not have
   evidence: Ch 16: "Theo's wrong-first canvas is a leaving/Philadelphia image." But
   Ch 13's offer beat ends "Dilemma: tell Theo? / Decision: not yet," and no card
   between 13 and 16 has June telling him. Theo cannot paint Philadelphia.
   why it matters: dual-draft chapter; one lane will paint Philadelphia and create a
   continuity hole in the most dangerous Tuesday.
   revision order: make it a generic leaving image (boxes, keys, an emptied wall — he
   knows her lease ends; he does not know where she would go). Add outcome rule: "Theo
   does not know about the Philadelphia offer."
   acceptance test: nothing on Theo's Week 6 canvases encodes information June withheld.

5. high — Ch 10's canvas attribution is garbled and Theo's Week 4 canvas is still
   unspecified (unapplied Round 1 patch)
   evidence: Ch 10 reveal: "Theo's canvas of June's hands becomes evidence that she sees
   his usefulness wound" — his canvas cannot evidence her seeing; the conflict line
   ("June paints his self-erasure as care") says it is her canvas. Round 1's accepted
   patch ("add one line specifying Theo's canvas of June's hands") was not applied.
   why it matters: this is the sanctioned hands-motif showcase, and whose-canvas-is-whose
   conflation was Round 1's blocking finding; a residue of the same disease sits on the
   Week 4 card.
   revision order: correct the reveal line to June's canvas; add Theo's canvas subject —
   June's hands painting, and what being watched at it costs her.
   acceptance test: a cold reader of Ch 10 can name both Week 4 canvases and whose hands
   are on each.

6. high — Odile-scene audit flags still leak: Ch 01 and Ch 14 lack flag:mentor-scene;
   Ch 06 carries a malformed flag
   evidence: Ch 01 (Odile conducts the entire destabilizer; "Odile's knowing must be
   invisible but true") carries no flag:mentor-scene. Ch 14 (Odile on-page, reread plant
   #5, "Odile never lies verbally") carries none either. Ch 02 (Odile adjusting card
   language, plant #1) likely needs it too. Ch 06 lists `flag:reaction_divergence` —
   underscore-styled, unlike every other flag in the deck, and appearing nowhere else.
   why it matters: Round 1's accepted acceptance test was "every card whose scene
   contains Odile carries the mentor-scene flag." Ch 01 and Ch 14 are two of the
   highest-stakes reread-integrity scenes in the book, and the consistency audit will
   skip them. A malformed flag silently routes nothing.
   revision order: add flag:mentor-scene to Ch 01 and Ch 14; to Ch 02 if Odile is
   on-page (the card implies she is). Verify `flag:reaction_divergence` against the
   registry; fix to hyphenated form or delete.
   acceptance test: grep for Odile's name across cards returns no chapter without
   flag:mentor-scene; every flag in the deck matches the registry's naming convention.

7. medium — Theo's Week 6 "truer" canvas duplicates his Week 5 memory painting without
   the echo being marked deliberate
   evidence: Ch 13: June watches "him paint her erased-wall memory" (Week 5). Ch 16:
   "Theo's truer second canvas is June repainting her own temporary wall white" — the
   same image, two weeks apart.
   why it matters: the emotional logic is strong (he held her fear for two weeks and
   painted it as anecdote; now he understands), but unmarked, drafting will either treat
   it as redundancy or invent a third image.
   revision order: one line on Ch 16 naming it a deliberate reworking and what changes
   between versions (Week 5 documentary, as told; Week 6 as fear — what the wall is
   doing to her in the second one).
   acceptance test: the Ch 16 card states the relationship between the two canvases and
   the visible difference.

8. medium — Ch 08's keep/destroy decision resolves before the pressure that is supposed
   to produce it
   evidence: conflict line: "Odile's casual errand, and the cohort's affection make
   destruction feel like another lie" — but scene design puts the decision first
   (reactive: "Decision: keeps study") and the errand/outing second.
   why it matters: as ordered, scene two is another low-stakes cohort outing — the exact
   repeat the recurring-risk rule forbids — because the live object is already settled.
   revision order: let Odile's errand interrupt the destruction attempt; the undecided
   study rides along; the keep decision lands after the outing makes destruction feel
   like another lie.
   acceptance test: the kept study is at stake in both scene units; the close still
   reads "the lie is now debt to friends."

9. medium — Ch 27 caps its payoffs at two but never names them
   evidence: "two cohort payoffs land selectively... because Priya/Ben already paid
   Ch 26."
   why it matters: an unnamed cap invites drafting to pick wrong or re-pay Priya/Ben.
   revision order: name them — Mara/Luis's piece (Mara not translating it) and Ruth/Sam
   presenting without explaining their category, which is also the chapter's
   Ruth-one-line slot.
   acceptance test: Ch 27 lists its two payoffs by couple.

10. medium — Winter Kitchen has one guaranteed appearance before its conditional final
    invocation
    evidence: Ch 01 mandates it (1/5); Ch 07/09/14/26 all say "no" or "only if
    essential"; Ch 28 is "only if it adds new meaning."
    why it matters: the thesis object's final invocation lands on a chain of one; the cap
    is five, the floor is currently one.
    revision order: sanction one mid-book invocation — Ch 14 catalog browsing is the
    natural slot (June encountering the painting's reproduction inside the object that
    will wound her is a free reread plant).
    acceptance test: at least two on-page Winter Kitchen beats precede Ch 28's.

CARD-SPECIFIC PATCH LIST
- Ch 01: add flag:mentor-scene.
- Ch 02: add flag:mentor-scene if Odile is on-page (card implies yes).
- Ch 06: fix or delete `flag:reaction_divergence` (naming-convention mismatch).
- Ch 08: reorder scene units so Odile's errand interrupts the destruction attempt and
  the keep decision closes the chapter.
- Ch 10: reveal line → "June's canvas of Theo's hands..."; add Theo's canvas subject
  (June's hands painting; the cost of being watched at it).
- Ch 13: cut Ruth from the kiss conflict (silent register only); reduce the After Class
  agreement to subject-only ("the room") as a compact post-announcement beat; strike the
  premise allocation from new terms.
- Ch 14: add flag:mentor-scene; sanction one Winter Kitchen invocation in catalog
  browsing (counts 2/5).
- Ch 15: deadline becomes Friday, December 4; keep the receipt close.
- Ch 16: "leaving/Philadelphia image" → generic leaving image; add outcome rule "Theo
  does not know about the Philadelphia offer"; add the deliberate-reworking line for the
  truer second canvas.
- Ch 18: add "deadline still ahead" to the offer pressure; name June's studies as the
  room seen by someone leaving it.
- Ch 19: name Theo's underpainting as the room kept ready for return.
- Ch 12: delete the "if June present" conditional in dialogue risks — scene two
  requires her.
- Ch 22: decline lands before Nia's December 4 deadline expires.
- Ch 24: one line locating the portrait after the booth (returns with Theo to Marchetti
  Rooms, faced to wall, feeding Ch 26's travel line).
- Ch 25: add outcome rule "no character names the two-panel metaphor aloud."
- Ch 27: name the two payoffs (Mara/Luis; Ruth/Sam) on the card.

DO NOT BREAK
- The same-night 16→17 fear→discovery rupture; fixes to Ch 16 must not open a gap.
- Decline-before-confession order (Ch 22 before 23/24) and June's self-owned stay.
- The catalog handoff happening exactly once, in Ch 14, as Theo's care move.
- Odile never verbally lying; the Ch 21 information ledger as written; reveal only at
  Ch 28.
- The fixed minimal showcase label; artifact-borne class disclosure; class never learns
  the nephew identity.
- Ruth-watch numbering 04/06/11/20 with Ch 20 as care-without-advice; her misread stays
  professional impropriety.
- Ch 23's suspended order-remembering beat — the asking-her-order move survives intact.
- The four named Week 6 fear objects (fix their references; do not unname them).
- Mara's scarf seed (Ch 03) → return (Ch 18) chain.
- Ch 13's overload mitigation: three scenes, offer notification as final beat, contents
  deferred to Ch 15.
- POV alternation map including the single 17–18 June flex; June opens and closes.
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The honest summary: the deck is one focused patch pass from draftable. Findings 1–4 are cross-card contradictions that would force the dual-draft lanes (13, 16) to invent canon divergently — that is why they are high rather than medium despite being one-to-three-line fixes. Findings 5–6 are unapplied or half-applied Round 1 patches; worth re-checking the patch application step, since two accepted items (Ch 10's canvas spec, Ch 25's metaphor rule) silently dropped. Nothing here touches the architecture, the rupture mechanics, or the ending — those held.
