# Decoration Test - Chapter 13

- CLARIFIES - "the color of a day after it had bounced down four stories and lost the argument" - work done: perception / scene logistics. Deletion would cost the airshaft's bottom-of-shaft value and June's painterly focalization.
- CLARIFIES - "a long curl like a fern" - work done: plot / continuity. Deletion would cost a Ch12 memory detail June must honor.
- CLARIFIES - "close enough to count the brush taps, invisible enough that she could not check his face" - work done: scene logistics / tension. Deletion would cost the back-to-back easel arrangement's emotional pressure.
- CLARIFIES - "enough air between them for either one to be cropped out" - work done: characterization / comedy. Deletion would cost June's reading of the failed photo as professional distance rather than intimacy.
- CLARIFIES - "the exact caution of a borrowed frame" - work done: characterization. Deletion would cost Theo's practical, object-world way of touching June under public pressure.
- CLARIFIES - "The kiss entered the evening the way the wet panels had entered it" - work done: calibrated register. Deletion would cost the chapter's art-room social handling of a romantic event; it is not generic atmosphere.
- CLARIFIES - "The message did not make Philadelphia larger. It made it printed" - work done: focalizer perception / plot. Deletion would cost the formalization of the offer as paperwork/decision rather than vague longing.

Closest calls defended: "lost the argument," "borrowed frame," and "made it printed" all risk sounding written, but each is anchored in the book's art/workplace object register and changes reader understanding.

Chapter verdict: `WORKING`.
