# Unresolved-Threads Protection Audit - Chapter 06

- PROTECTED THREAD: Theo's protected relation to Odile - HELD. Evidence: chapter uses only `boss`, `gallery`, `Odile`, and `access to Odile that had never been printed on a contact sheet`; no aunt/nephew/family language appears.
- PROTECTED THREAD: Odile knew from night one - HELD. Evidence: Odile is off-page; no narrator confirmation of her knowledge appears.
- PROTECTED THREAD: fake relationship public lie - HELD AND DEEPENED. Evidence: the public assumption remains in force through `Together? One cup or two?`; June corrects living-together assumptions but does not reveal fake-couple truth.
- PROTECTED THREAD: Mara's scarf - HELD. Evidence: scarf remains with June: `wearing Mara's black scarf`; `Mara touched the scarf's fringe`; `Mara's scarf and her own paid coffee`.
- PROTECTED THREAD: Philadelphia/Nia/Asha - HELD. Evidence: no offer/job path appears; the only housing pressure is Priya/Ben's Suffolk apartment.
- PROTECTED THREAD: first snow / `Winter Kitchen` / underpainting / kiss/confession - HELD. Evidence: no title invocation, no snow, no underpainting metaphor, no kiss/confession.

Chapter verdict: THREADS-PROTECTED.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
