Verification complete. I checked all eight Round 2 repairs against the revised cards, cross-checked the calendar (Dec 1 and Dec 8 are Tuesdays, so December 4 is in fact a Friday), re-counted the Ruth-watch beats and `Winter Kitchen` invocations across all 28 cards, and swept for new contradictions introduced by the patches. All eight repairs are in. What remains is flag hygiene and drafting-packet discipline, nothing structural.

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VERDICT: PASS TO DRAFTING

ROUND 2 REPAIR CHECK

- Nia/Philadelphia deadline (Friday, December 4; Ch 22 declines before expiry): PASS.
  Ch 15 goal: "evaluate the Philadelphia offer rationally before Nia's Friday, December 4
  deadline"; close: "writes the Friday, December 4 noon deadline on the back of a receipt."
  Ch 18: "the still-live December 4 offer deadline" / "keep the December 4 offer deadline
  ahead." Ch 22: "the December 4 deadline is about to expire"; close: "before Nia's
  December 4 deadline expires, she declines Nia." Calendar check: Week 7 is Tue Dec 1 and
  Week 8 is Tue Dec 8, so Dec 4 is a Friday and the Ch 22 window (after Ch 19's Dec 1,
  before Dec 4) is feasible. The clock stays live through Ch 18-21 with no off-page
  extension needed.

- Ch 13 Ruth removal; Ruth-watch stays 04/06/11/20: PASS.
  Ch 13's conflict and scene design contain no Ruth at all: forcing load is "Mara wants
  partner photos for the flyer, the assembled cohort can see any refusal," and the setback
  is "nobody asks for a kiss, but June chooses one as public repair" (which also satisfies
  Codex's no-coercion acceptance test). The four beats are explicitly numbered on their
  cards: Ch 04 "Ruth-watch beat 1 of 4," Ch 06 "beat 2 of 4," Ch 11 "beat 3 of 4," Ch 20
  "beat 4 of 4 and must be care-without-advice, not suspicion." Ch 27's Ruth line is the
  sanctioned inference payoff, fenced by "Ruth one line cannot open a second rupture."

- After Class premise staging 13 -> 18 -> 19 -> 25: PASS.
  Ch 13 new terms: "`After Class` subject agreement - the same studio room" (subject only),
  staged as "compact beat - Odile announces the showcase and June/Theo agree on the room as
  joint subject." Ch 18: "paints studies of the agreed studio room as someone leaving it
  sees it." Ch 19: "underpainting the room as kept ready for return." Ch 25 outcome rule:
  "no character names the two-panel metaphor aloud" (the Round 1 rule that had silently
  dropped is now applied).

- Ch 16 no Philadelphia knowledge / generic wrong-first / marked reworking: PASS.
  Outcome rule present: "Theo does not know about the Philadelphia offer." Wrong-first
  image: "generic leaving - boxes, keys, an emptied wall - as an underpainting or abandoned
  first pass" (also satisfies Codex's layer-logic test). Truer image: "deliberately reworks
  the Week 5 erased-wall memory, shifting it from documentary anecdote to fear by showing
  the wall erasing her work, with the wrong read still materially visible" — relationship
  and visible difference both stated, per the acceptance test.

- Ch 10 both hands canvases named correctly: PASS.
  "June's canvas of Theo's hands becomes evidence that she sees his usefulness wound;
  Theo's canvas of June's hands shows her painting, and the cost of being watched while
  making." Attribution now agrees with the conflict line ("June paints his self-erasure as
  care from across the room"). A cold reader can name both Week 4 canvases.

- Odile/mentor flags and malformed flag: PASS (with one residue, see medium item 1).
  Ch 01, Ch 02, and Ch 14 now carry flag:mentor-scene. Ch 06's flags are now
  "flag:multi-character-scene, flag:recurring-conversation" — the underscore-styled
  flag:reaction_divergence is gone, and no underscore flags remain anywhere in the deck.

- Ch 27 names two live payoffs, no Priya/Ben reload: PASS.
  "live cohort payoffs are Mara/Luis's piece with Mara not translating Luis and Ruth/Sam
  presenting without explaining their category." Priya/Ben pay off in Ch 26 ("Priya/Ben
  choose the slower move rather than the panic one") and do not appear on the Ch 27 card.
  Codex's observable-signal test is also met: "the class can see two incompatible starting
  orientations/underpaintings and infer the relationship did not begin as presented," with
  "no Ruth/group explanation of the artifact reveal" in dialogue risks.

- Ch 14 second Winter Kitchen invocation within cap: PASS.
  "sanctioned `Winter Kitchen` invocation 2/5 during catalog browsing; no other
  painting-title nostalgia here." Deck-wide count: Ch 01 = 1/5 mandatory, Ch 14 = 2/5
  mandatory, Ch 26 "no new Winter Kitchen unless essential," Ch 28 final "only if it adds
  new meaning and stays within cap." Maximum possible is 4 of the capped 5, and the floor
  is now two on-page beats before Ch 28, satisfying Round 2's finding 10.

NEW OR REMAINING FINDINGS

No blocking/high findings remain. Medium drafting watch items only:

1. medium — Mentor-flag acceptance test leaves residue at Ch 08 (and a staging ambiguity at Ch 03/04)
   evidence: Ch 08 scene design stages Odile on-page ("Interruption: Odile's errand sends
   the still-undecided study along"; it interrupts a live destruction attempt) but Ch 08's
   flags are only multi-character-scene/protagonist-heavy. Separately, the skeleton's
   reread-plant list says "Ch 04: Odile seats June/Theo where Ruth can see them," while the
   cards relocate it: Ch 03 outcome rule "Odile seating plant starts during studio
   cleanup/critique, not at Sonia's" and Ch 04 references only "Odile's earlier studio
   seating/cleanup choices."
   why it matters: Round 1's accepted acceptance test was "every card whose scene contains
   Odile carries flag:mentor-scene" — Ch 08 is reread plant #3 and would be skipped by the
   consistency audit. The Ch 03/04 boundary is internally consistent between cards but a
   drafter consulting the skeleton plant list could stage Odile at Sonia's, which Ch 03's
   outcome rule forbids.
   exact patch: add flag:mentor-scene to Ch 08 (or state on-card that the errand arrives by
   note, off-page). Add one line to the Ch 04 drafting packet: the seating plant is already
   done by the time the diner scene opens; Odile is not at Sonia's.

2. medium — Ch 13's compact beat must not draft as a fourth scene
   evidence: scene design now lists proactive (memory painting), "compact beat" (showcase
   announcement + room agreement), proactive (flyer photo/kiss), reactive (offer final
   beat). The Round 2 do-not-break held Ch 13 to "three scenes, offer notification as final
   beat."
   why it matters: this is a dual-draft chapter and the deck's most overloaded card; if
   either lane inflates the compact beat into a full scene unit, the Round 1 overload
   problem returns under a different name.
   exact patch: none to the card (it already says "announcement compact"); carry an
   explicit word/scene budget for the announcement beat into the Ch 13 drafting packet.

3. medium — Ch 16's wrong-first image lacks its on-card factual source
   evidence: the skeleton says the wrong-first pass is built "from known facts," but the
   Ch 16 card gives only the objects ("boxes, keys, an emptied wall") without naming what
   Theo actually knows (June's lease ends mid-December, per the calendar).
   why it matters: dual-draft chapter; a lane reaching for grounding could invent a fact
   Theo shouldn't have, re-creating the exact leak this repair removed.
   exact patch: one clause on Ch 16's reveal line: "built from the lease fact he knows; he
   does not know where she would go."

DO NOT BREAK
- Same-night Ch 16 -> Ch 17 fear-to-discovery rupture; no gap opens between them.
- Decline-before-confession order: Ch 22 lands before Ch 23/24, with no Theo input; June's
  stay stays self-owned (earned-stay test).
- Catalog handoff exactly once, in Ch 14, as Theo's care move; acknowledgment not visible
  until Ch 17.
- Odile never verbally lies; Ch 21 information ledger as written; her knowing stays
  protected until Ch 28; class never learns the nephew identity.
- Fixed minimal label ("After Class. Two underpaintings of one room, finished together.");
  class disclosure stays artifact-borne; no Ruth/group explanation.
- Ruth-watch numbering exactly 04/06/11/20, Ch 20 as care-without-advice; her misread stays
  professional impropriety; Ch 27's one line is inference payoff, not a fifth beat.
- Winter Kitchen ledger: Ch 01 = 1/5, Ch 14 = 2/5, Ch 26/28 conditional only, cap 5.
- The four named Week 6 fear objects and their layer logic (wrong-first as visible
  underpainting/abandoned pass).
- Mara's scarf chain: seeded Ch 03, returned Ch 18.
- Ch 13 mitigation: nobody asks for the kiss; offer notification is the final beat; offer
  contents deferred to Ch 15.
- December 4 Friday deadline anchored by the Dec 1 / Dec 8 Tuesdays; Ch 22's
  ask-Asha-first consent sequence; NY path independent of Asha taking the Philly role.
- POV alternation with the single 17-18 June flex; June opens and closes.
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The deck is draftable. All eight Round 2 repairs are applied and none of them introduced a new cross-card contradiction — I specifically checked the patched seams (the Dec 4 clock against the class calendar, the Ch 13 scene economy after the compact beat was added, the Week 5/Week 6 erased-wall relationship, and the Winter Kitchen running count). The three medium items are packet-level guardrails, not card surgery; only item 1 and item 3 involve touching a card at all, and each is a one-line edit that can ride along with the Chapter 01 packet preparation the revision plan already names as the next action.
