# Ending Quality Audit - Chapter 15

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- `LANDS — scene 1 / chapter-final — final lines quoted — "June propped the receipt against the bottom of the catalog stack, written side out, where she'd see it from the bed, from the stove, from the door. Then she moved the mineral spirits jar from the windowsill and set it on the receipt's lower edge, so it couldn't slide off, fold shut, or otherwise excuse itself. / Fifteen days. She turned off the big light and left the deadline pinned under the jar she hadn't opened." — what closes the beat: June creates a physical deadline object and weights it with the unopened jar — pressure it cuts on: the offer clock now visible in the same room as the catalog reveal object and the uncleaned umber mark.`
  - Strongest weak candidate considered: `"Fifteen days."` It is a single short line in a weighty position. It survives because it is a calendared consequence, not a profundity stamp, and is immediately tied to the receipt/jar action.
  - Cliches checked: none of the listed ending cliches appear.
  - Stillness strings checked: no `doesn't move`, `still in hand`, `doesn't say anything`, or `And for now`.

Chapter verdict: `ENDINGS-CLEAN`

REVISION ORDERS: none.
