# Adversarial Register Audit - Chapter 17

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- `CLEAR — binding register` — warm/precise/lightly comic is recalibrated for a rupture; the chapter uses precision and dry pressure rather than banter density.
- `CLEAR — no genre-cliche rupture speech` — June does not say "I trusted you" or "how could you"; the grievance is specific: `"you stood in it knowing she couldn't."`
- `CLEAR — no dialogue diagnosis` — no one comments on how a line sounds or rates delivery.
- `CLEAR — no public grand gesture` — Theo offers logistical repair, not a romance spectacle.
- `CLEAR — exact emotional plainness` — `"I was scared you'd stop coming"` and `"That was mine to decide"` obey the plain-speech floor.
- `NEAREST RISK CLEARED — aphoristic pressure speech` — raw-draft quotable lines (`"Strangers know the way out"`, `"That's the whole grievance..."`, and `"Saying *I know* isn't giving it back"`) were cut or de-quotablized; final Plain Translation round returned `REGISTER-HOLDS`.

Chapter verdict: `REGISTER-HELD`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
