# Chapter 23 Earned Test - Current Text

BUILT — `"Two underpaintings of one room, finished together"` (L143) — foundation trace: Ch19 created the false/half canvas problem; Ch22 recommitted to finishing `After Class`; this chapter shows both halves being worked under the seam rules (L45-L73) before the label is printed. No announcement signature; the label follows process.

BUILT — `"I'm not sorry I'm not going. I wanted to say that out loud in a room"` (L89) — foundation trace: Ch20/22 establish June's self-owned stay before Theo, Dana room, Kessler payment, and Asha referral; L81-L83 renew material cost; L89 shows the Asha payoff. The beat is scaled to spoken steadiness, not weeping/revelation.

BUILT — `"The helpful version costs me the room"` (L87) — foundation trace: Theo's useful-care pathology is exposed in Ch17/21/22 and reappears in L83 as four withheld fixes; Dana room cost is L81. The line spends that foundation without resolving the financial pressure.

BUILT — Priya/Ben slower choice: `"We passed. For now"` / `"That's my condition. Not the apartment. That"` (L105-L109) — foundation trace: prior rent/Suffolk thread establishes the apartment as possible rescue; this chapter supplies approval then refusal. Intensity is proportional: no melodrama, one condition.

BUILT — final corner/tape beat: `"tell them it's supposed to"` (L175) — foundation trace: Theo leaves the crooked corner visible (L65-L73), June pulls tape and reveals the seam (L161), and the piece is set for public viewing (L163). The line is practical instruction, not music-swell announcement.

Chapter verdict: `EARNED`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
