# Chapter 04 Consequence Test

- STATE-CHANGED(knowledge / social standing / danger / intimacy) — scene 1 (`"The corner booth at Sonia's sat six, and they were eight."`) — type: proactive with reactive tail — change: the cohort now owns a believable public origin story, and Ruth owns a sharper private suspicion. Evidence: `"That's a real first version"` makes the story public; `"Ruth wasn't reading romance into anybody. She was reading an arrangement"` shifts the danger; `"Thursdays. 43 labels, one flipped. The pencil. Line eight."` locks Theo into remembering the cover. EXIT: ON-TURN — the chapter ends when Theo files the list in the same pocket as the charcoal stub.

Weakest state-change considered: June keeping the scarf through `"Tuesday. That was the deal."` could be decor if isolated, but it survives because it extends Ch03's object thread and proves Sonia's is now a social commons with enforceable small terms.

Chapter verdict: ALL-SCENES-CHANGE.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
