# Zoom-Out Audit 08

Coverage: Chapters 01-08 against premise/outline.

- Spine status: on track. Ch01-02 create the false couple as public/institutional fact; Ch03-04 build class and Sonia's social commons; Ch05-07 turn looking into memory and visible artifact; Ch08 converts the hidden study into social debt and future portrait seed.
- Promise pressure: romance remains slow-burn and sweet; no kiss/confession/exposure yet. Reader pleasure comes from art assignments, found-family table pressure, and object continuity rather than contrivance.
- Drift check: no Philadelphia/Nia/Asha, first snow, Odile-knew reveal, or Theo relation reveal has leaked early. Ruth suspicion rests in Ch08 as planned.
- Architecture health: the first eight chapters have now completed Turn 1. The lie has moved from access -> paperwork -> table -> memory -> artifact custody. That is sufficient escalation for Act I / early Act II transition.
- Structural risk: the book has many rooms/tables and Theo logistics. Ch09 must change texture into June's work life and material leave/stay scaffolding; it should avoid another Sonia's/social-table chapter.
- Highest leverage next action: draft Ch09 with concrete install labor, Nia/Philadelphia seed, and Asha/New York lead, making possibility feel like pressure rather than exposition.

Verdict: ON-ARCHITECTURE.

REVISION ORDERS: none for Ch08; Ch09 card should foreground June's worksite and material alternatives.
