# Earned Test - Chapter 17

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- `BUILT — "Eileen Brennan. My sister. Her son, Theo Brennan. There was no error." — foundation trace: Ch14 lent catalog seed; Ch16 gives June nine catalogs and a slip; Ch01-Ch16 establish June's risk as outsider in Odile's final class; Ch15-Ch16 intensify key/stockroom/safety-net hints.`
- `BUILT — "Every Tuesday I stood in her room knowing she could throw me out, and you stood in it knowing she couldn't." — foundation trace: Ch01 public fake-couple offer; Ch02-Ch16 repeated class exposure; Ch14 catalogs from Odile's shelf; Ch16 Theo's failed confession and keys; Chapter 17 acknowledgment confirms family safety.`
- `BUILT — "You're trying to get a task." — foundation trace: Theo's voice card and chapters repeatedly establish care through logistics: keys, closing, catalogs, labels, flyers; Ch16's fear painting exposes useful-hands/blank-ground anxiety.`
- `BUILT — "Don't set one for me." — foundation trace: the course is eight Tuesdays and class seating/pairing has been the public lie engine since Ch01; refusing a chair turns the relationship rupture into attendance consequence.`
- `BUILT — "You can stand where you grew up... I've been a stranger here the whole time." — foundation trace: Chapter 17 itself makes family/stranger asymmetry physical: back stair, service door, key history, Theo growing up in the building, and June leaving through a route she now refuses to let him supervise.`

Chapter verdict: `EARNED`.

No ANNOUNCED beat found. The highest-risk lines are heightened, but each spends a built line of pressure and remains in character speech or focalized June procedure.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
