# Chapter 24 Counter-Strip Audit - Current Text

Purpose: check that repairs did not strip warmth, clarity, or payoff while removing Claude tics.

PASS - Public disclosure still legible after cutting explanatory prose. Evidence: label L23, Ruth line L51, June answer L55, and private boundary L69.

PASS - Portrait beat still carries ache after cuts. Evidence: concrete utility-sink painting at L99 and June's turn-back/ownership logic L103-L105.

PASS - Snow remains emotionally useful without weather thesis. Evidence: visibility against lit/dark street at L149-L153 and material cold/money at L155-L161.

PASS - Comic warmth survived. Evidence: radiator line L7, dog-or-sofa L11, Ben off-level flyer L47, Hallorans/bar line L83.

WATCH - L127-L131 still gives the Odile ethics in a dense paragraph. Later audits may choose to thin it, but this audit does not order a cut because the final reveal requires moral clarity.

Chapter verdict: `COUNTER-STRIP-PASS`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
