# Shared-Vocabulary Ban Conformance - Chapter 06

- CLEAN - romance abstraction avoided. No `destiny`, `soulmate`, `journey`, `perfect`, or beauty-unawareness language.
- CLEAN - reading-guide banned phrase avoided. No `load-bearing` / `load bearing` / `loadbearing`.
- CLEAN - no dialogue diagnosis. Strongest candidate: Ruth's `That's the reflex I'm asking about` diagnoses Theo's behavior, not the wording or delivery of his sentence; it is permitted because it changes what he does next.
- CLEAN - June and Theo do not share the same metaphor bank. June's vocabulary remains visual/craft: `plate tone`, `wipe`, `miters`, `gold`. Theo's remains route/institution: `route card`, `closing times`, `gallery keys`, `official channel`.
- WATCH - route/terms vocabulary is dense in Theo POV, but it is character-owned and chapter-card aligned.

Chapter verdict: SHARED-VOCAB-CLEAN.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
