Both repair sites verified against the current chapter text. Here is the completed Round 2 audit:

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# Narrator-Publicist Audit — Chapter 09 ("Local Work") — Round 2 Verification

Scope: narrow verification of the two Round 1 revision orders per the Round 1 audit (`output/critiques/claude/chapter_09.narrator_publicist.md`). Reading-guide and voice-card framing unchanged from Round 1: `premise/READING_GUIDE.md` §2 declares close third with interiority discipline and no publicist narrator; `output/style_and_voice.md` grants June narration transparency on scene logistics only. No declared-attitude exemption applies. Unrelated material ruled EARNED in Round 1 was not reopened; only the two repair sites and their immediate context were inspected for repair-induced damage.

`ORDER 1: RESOLVED` — The competence caption on Asha is gone, and the sentence ends exactly where the order specified. Line 25 now reads: "Asha came over and looked at the swatch from straight on before taking the angle. 'It's the same paint. It's the wall that's wrong.'" The clause "because she was also good at this" appears nowhere in the chapter. The repair took the order's preferred path: the two-position check (straight on, then the rake) stands as the action, and Asha's immediate diagnosis — calling the result before June reframes it ("The wall's been here. The wall wins.") — carries the competence without narrator certification. No softer adjective was substituted; strip test now has nothing to strip.

`ORDER 2: RESOLVED` — The universalizing validation clause is gone. Line 123 now reads: "The artist would learn it from the wall eventually." The phrase "the way everyone did" appears nowhere in the chapter. The repair used the order's sanctioned minimal option (stop at "eventually"), and the warrant survives intact in the prior sentence's concrete fact ("The north wall was lit secondhand all day, a full step cooler in practice than the wall June had just matched by eye"). The required physical beat is preserved verbatim: "tightened one hand on the rail" — June paying to keep her expertise in her pocket with the invoice. No replacement clause asserting consensus or confirmation of June's knowledge was introduced; the remaining prediction is anchored to one named in-scene perceiver (the artist, already frowning at that wall at lines 115–121).

`NEW REPAIR-INDUCED FAILURE:` None. Both repairs were pure deletions at the clause level; neither sentence acquired a compensating caption, adjective, or imagined-audience rider. The surrounding beats at both sites (Asha's swatch dialogue at lines 25–37; the walk-through exchange at lines 115–125) read as they did when ruled clean in Round 1.

`REVISION ORDERS:` None.

`OVERALL: CLEAN`
