# Chapter 21 Wisdom-Dispensing Mentor-Scene Audit

`SCENE 1 — elder: Odile, junior: Theo`

- Marker 1, perfectly calibrated anecdote: `ABSENT — Odile gives no past anecdote; she gives a logistics admission: "I wrote that page. I paid the printer."`
- Marker 2, aphorism delivery: `ABSENT — cleanest advice candidate is "Eat before you decide anything else about yourself," which is feeding/order behavior, not a maxim.`
- Marker 3, graceful reception: `ABSENT — Theo resists and sets a boundary: "You don't get to send me with a box again."`
- Marker 4, everyone-leaves-improved closure: `ABSENT — the scene closes with only a material partial confession, "she wrote her own initials, *O.M.*," and the relationship is less convenient, not healed.`
- Marker 5, missing mess: `ABSENT — mess ledger includes Odile's self-interest/manipulation ("I stopped waiting"), partial responsibility, and material rather than verbal confession.`
- `MESS LEDGER: elder partly wrong/self-interested; advice is practical food; useful thing arrives as paper initials rather than lesson.`
- Scene verdict: `HUMAN`.

Chapter verdict: `MENTORS-HUMAN`.

Cleanest transmitted advice that survives: `"There is soup upstairs. Barley."` It is offset by the immediately preceding refusal to absolve him and the following boundary.

`REVISION ORDERS`: none.
