# Complicate-Don't-Resolve Audit - Chapter 08

- COMPLICATES - fake relationship. Evidence: the standing Tuesday table extends social expectations past the class: "it's not the end of the table" (line 55).
- COMPLICATES - Theo hidden portrait / art-making. Evidence: he does not destroy the study, but he also does not label, show, or finish it: "One panel, unlabeled, facing the wall, not destroyed" (line 115).
- COMPLICATES - cohort belonging. Evidence: saved seat, remembered pickle, and booth defense deepen affection while making future truth costlier.
- COMPLICATES - June/Theo private honesty. Evidence: June asks about the panel and Theo answers partly: "One part did. I'm not done deciding what that means" (line 95).

Strongest resolution candidate: Theo keeps the study. It does not resolve the art-life thread; it arms the later faced-to-wall portrait and increases secrecy.

Chapter verdict: COMPLICATION-ADDED.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
