# Performance Check - Chapter 06

- UNPERFORMED - keynote cadence. Strongest counter-candidate: `"It's the only data," June said, and went back to the lithograph. The route card came back against Theo's shirt.` It is shaped, but it lands in a physical object after a live interruption rather than announcing a thesis.
- UNPERFORMED - mission-statement phrasing. Strongest counter-candidate: `Rent math is not a proposal.` This is a character-generated rule inside Ben/Priya's shared note, not narration declaring purpose.
- UNPERFORMED - applause-line endings. Strongest counter-candidate: `Theo's evening no longer had a card in it.` It risks quotability, but it is tied to the literal route card passed to Ben and changes scene behavior.
- UNPERFORMED - ceremonial wrap-ups. Chapter ending quoted: `He put one foot on the first stair and the next. Halfway down, his thumb found the empty place on his shirt where the route card had been.` It stops on a micro-action, not a blessing or summary.
- UNPERFORMED - service-desk tone. Strongest candidate: `"Confirming," Theo said.` This is character-specific over-management, not canned reassurance.

OVERALL: UNPERFORMED.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
