# Performance Check: Chapter 03

1. UNPERFORMED - keynote cadence. Strongest counter-candidate: line 109 "Everyone in this room was bad in public..." has aphoristic shape, but it comes after seven concrete drawings and names the chapter's state-change rather than swelling into address.
2. UNPERFORMED - mission-statement phrasing. Strongest counter-candidate: line 159 "both facts could be true" is June's interiority, not a brochure claim.
3. UNPERFORMED - applause-line endings. Strongest counter-candidate: line 169 "went first" is concise, but it is physical action toward the cohort, not a reader-facing punchline.
4. UNPERFORMED - ceremonial wrap-up. The final 150 words stay in route/scarf/drawing action and stop at the threshold to Ch04.
5. UNPERFORMED - service-desk tone. No canned praise/host language outside character-licensed practical speech.

Watch-count lead: ruleset-three-part-cadence at line 75 ("supplies, the timer, her") is literal scan of Theo's avoidance and not keynote cadence.

OVERALL: UNPERFORMED.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
