# Chapter 06 Dialogue Repair Memo

Source audit: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_06.dialogue_doctor.md`

## Accepted Findings

- Accepted voice-convergence finding: multiple speakers used the same clipped dry-correction rhythm.
- Accepted fake-sharp findings in Ben/Priya's Suffolk exchange and Priya's repeated cappers.
- Accepted Ruth over-landing finding: the warning scene had too many editorial-sharp lines and borrowed Sam's room vocabulary.
- Accepted zero-tolerance dialogue-diagnosis finding: June's `Good answer.`
- Accepted over-explained Theo interiority finding around the Ben question.

## Repairs Applied

- Rewrote Mara's scarf/wall/sightline lines to restore warmer over-hosting and clause-length specific to her.
- Reworked Ben/Priya's rent-math beat so Ben reports too much practical information and Priya gives functional friction rather than a sitcom tag.
- Cut `Good answer`; June now keeps both printmaking theories instead of rating Theo's answer.
- Compressed Theo's couple-unit gloss and cut the balanced thesis sentence `Theo had received the ease. June had paid for its boundary.`
- Changed Priya's stool line and listing response to practical care/control rather than clean antithesis.
- Replaced Ruth's `room is arranged` and `Find her one. Not me.` with a professional/forms misread and a less polished final instruction.

## Verification Pending

Rerun Dialogue Doctor round 2 on current `output/chapters/chapter_06.md`.
