# Dialogue Doctor - Chapter 18 - Round: Reader-Directive Sweep (2026-07-24)

Scope: delta audit plus chapter-level re-check. Changes across the reader-directive rounds are narration-only: the coy delivery-notice paragraph cut (riddle-tail). No dialogue changed. Prior round preserved on disk.

Chapter-level re-verification:
- 1: CLEAN - the chat exchange ("crooked is dynamic," / "it's crooked,") is a two-voice differentiation beat; Mara's street dialogue keeps her over-provision register ("There's pie under the turkey. Don't tilt it." / "The blue dish is mine. Not the foil. The dish under it.").
- 2: CLEAN - Mara scene alternates her fuller turns against June's compressed ones, which is the relationship.
- 3: CLEAN - June's mind present through the deflected thanks ("Thank you for October," and Mara's redirect registered).
- 4/6/7: CLEAN.
- 5: CLEAN - Theo's single text ("Okay. No chair.") is a message, not stripped scene dialogue; exclusion applied.
- FAKE-SHARP: CLEAN - counter-candidate "He's right," (to the dog) survives as one-beat street humor with a literal referent.
- INTERIORITY-OVERCORRECTION: CLEAN - solitary painting sections carry continuous process interiority.

Tail-strip verification: delivery-notice riddle-paragraph confirmed gone; remaining buttons ("Now there might not be another Tuesday.", spackle ender) are plot-bearing. Density within cap.

OVERALL: CLEAN
