# Consequence Test - Chapter 19

Verdict: CONSEQUENCE-PRESENT.

## State Change

- Start state: Theo knows June told him not to set a chair; the cohort does not yet know what the absence means; `After Class` is assigned but materially unstarted after rupture.
- End state: the whole class has seen the empty place; Theo has begun his half of the twelve-by-sixteen ground as a kept-ready room; Odile has physically moved him to June's side; Luis and Mara have made the absence socially undeniable; the ground is racked with June's name first and the empty half stained.

## Evidence

- Public absence becomes visible: `Seven stools. Three stations got two. His got one, on the wall side of the table.`
- The cohort knows something broke without facts: Priya asks `"Is June coming?"`; Mara says `"Everyone counted, Theo. The second we walked in. Everyone."`
- Luis prevents logistics from smoothing the problem: `"You can't leave it half," Luis said.`
- Irreversible art state: Theo labels and racks `The room after class. June / Theo. Wk 7.` with a stain on the empty side.

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