# Consequence Test - Chapter 17

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- `STATE-CHANGED(knowledge / relationship / attendance) - scene 1 ("The Acknowledgment Page") - type: reactive-to-proactive rupture - change: June enters trying to regain control through label precedent and exits knowing Theo's family safety net, returning one catalog, refusing repair tasks, and stopping class attendance.`
  - Want: regain control through exact label work. Evidence: `"find how Odile titled times of day, build the wall text for `After Class` out of precedent instead of feeling."`
  - Resistance: the care object becomes evidence. Evidence: `"My sister, Eileen Brennan... Her son, Theo Brennan..."`.
  - Turn: June reframes the whole false-couple risk as asymmetry, not romance-lie melodrama. Evidence: `"you'd be her nephew who pulled a stunt"` and `"Every Tuesday I stood in her room knowing she could throw me out, and you stood in it knowing she couldn't."`
  - Counter-turn: Theo tries to convert exposure into logistics. Evidence: `"I'll tell her tomorrow morning... You keep the slot... I'll move the pair into storage..."`.
  - Exit condition: June refuses his repair scene and refuses Week 7. Evidence: `"Don't set one for me"` and `"The other eight come back some way that isn't you."`
  - `EXIT: ON-TURN` - final action `"kept going"` follows the refusal, not a mood stamp.

Chapter verdict: `ALL-SCENES-CHANGE`.

Weakest STATE-CHANGED element: June's decision not to attend next Tuesday could be read as anger-only, but it survives because the chapter makes the factual grievance explicit before she withdraws.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
