# Chapter 21 Consequence Test

- `STATE-CHANGED(knowledge / power / commitment / self-understanding) — scene 1 ("The box was inside the freight door...") — type: proactive — change: Theo moves from passive catalog aftermath into a direct boundary with Odile; the turn registers in "I'm done being the route" and Odile's written admission, "she wrote her own initials, *O.M.*, small and square."`
  `EXIT: ON-TURN` — the scene exits after Odile puts responsibility on the loan sheet and leaves; the final sentence names the limit of the confession rather than reopening the argument.

- `STATE-CHANGED(self-understanding / commitment) — scene 2 ("He ate the soup because it was there...") — type: reactive — change: Theo stops treating June's fear canvas as hardware and sees enough of its charge to stop fixing around it; the change is locatable in "the drill stayed in his pocket," "a small clean rectangle of nothing that the hands in the foreground were too busy to walk toward," and "He left the wire a half-inch low on the left."`
  `EXIT: ON-TURN` — he leaves the visible flaw uncorrected and reaches behind the backing boards; that action converts recognition into the next goal.

- `STATE-CHANGED(commitment / intimacy / self-understanding) — scene 3 ("The glassine had a fur of dust...") — type: proactive — change: Theo finishes the hidden study without turning it into freight for June; the turn is "he wrote: *Study - J. Park - begun wk 3, finished 12/4 - T. Brennan*" and then "painted side faced to the wall."`
  `EXIT: ON-TURN` — the scene stops on the consent-governed object, "He did not put it in a crate," before the chapter moves to the phone.

- `STATE-CHANGED(commitment / intimacy) — scene 4 ("He washed the brushes...") — type: proactive — change: Theo asks for a conversation and then immediately reveals the old management reflex by sending a hedge after it; the turn is "Can we talk? Sonia's. You pick the day and time" followed by "If you'd rather not, I understand."`
  `EXIT: ON-TURN` — the shutdown image carries the consequence forward without granting repair: "The phone stayed dark," "the loan sheet... with every column full," and the study still faced to the wall.

Chapter verdict: `ALL-SCENES-CHANGE`.

Weakest `STATE-CHANGED` scene: scene 2, because the change is internal and object-mediated. It survives because the drill, wire, and backing-board reach are irreversible physical choices, not merely recognition.

`REVISION ORDERS`: none.
