Both repairs verified against the chapter card, Asha's voice card, and the reading guide. Here is the completed Round 3 audit:

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# Positive Prose Audit - Chapter 09 - ROUND 3 (post-repair, narrow)

Target: `output/chapters/chapter_09.md` (second repair)
Scope: verification of Round 2's two repair-induced orders only, plus a check for any new failure created by the repair text itself. The wall-job spine was not reopened, per Round 2's instruction that it is the cleanest stretch in the chapter.

## ROUND 2 ORDER CHECK:

`ORDER 1:` `RESOLVED` — The fragment chain ("High hundreds. Freight elevator. Dana. Kessler. Two phone numbers before Friday.") is gone. The lunch close now runs exactly as ordered: "June laughed, and the laugh came late. Asha's peeled label was still stuck to the bucket between them." — and the inventory is carried once, by the following paragraph alone: "At eleven this morning, New York had been her old room and overdue invoices. Now it had a corner in a Ridgewood studio and six weeks of armory wages. Philadelphia had a set of keys on Tasker Street. Neither one was nothing." The materialization is stated a single time and stays emotionally legible: the laugh's trigger is Asha's "I can send both" — the accumulation itself — and "Neither one was nothing" lands the chapter card's revelation ("leaving and staying both now have material forms") without bookkeeping. The deleted fragments leave no orphaned references; Dana's and Kessler's numbers still arrive by text at the loading door and are saved at clock-out, so the ledger's downstream beats are intact.

`ORDER 2:` `RESOLVED` — Asha's stake is restored in exactly the sanctioned line, attached exactly where ordered: "I'd call. I don't know if I'd go. If you pass, send her my name. I can do the boring parts and still paint at night." It did not grow a speech: the turn is four short sentences, broken immediately by action ("Asha stood, brushed crumbs onto the drop cloth"), followed by the pre-existing 2019 museum-prep line, and clipped shut with "Truck." — her card's "clipped and schedule-aware" under pressure, observed to the letter. The line re-arms the Ch 22 payoff named on the chapter card ("set... Asha for Ch 22"), gives "I'd call" a visible motive, and puts her card's contradiction ("wants stability and knows stability can eat the hours she needs to paint") on the page in her own mouth. She is no longer a pure lead-dispenser; she wants the job for herself if June passes, which is the opposite of instrumental. Plain-speech floor satisfied — it is a want stated as a fact, no decoding required.

`NEW REPAIR-INDUCED FAILURE:` None. The repair consisted of one deletion and two added sentences. The deletion creates no continuity gap and restores the correct single-statement rhythm. The added sentences contain no registry tics, no dialogue diagnosis, no banned strings, and no inspirational art talk (her card's "never says"); "boring parts" and "paint at night" are her sanctioned vocabulary. The juxtaposition with the 2019 line does not tip into speech because the action beat and "Truck." pace it.

Carryover watch item from Round 2, unchanged and untouched by this repair: "The artist would learn it from the wall eventually, the way everyone did" remains one clause from a maxim but still sits on the swallowed correction and still reads as trade knowledge. Watch only; no order. Not reopened.

`REVISION ORDERS:` None.

## Chapter verdict

`OVERALL: CLEAN` — Both Round 2 orders were executed with the same fidelity as the first repair: the ledger materializes once and means something, and Asha exits the chapter as a person with her own unspent want rather than a delivery mechanism. The lunch scene now matches the quality of the wall-job spine. Chapter 09 is releasable on the Positive Prose axis.
