# Consequence Test: Chapter 02

- STATE-CHANGED(knowledge / commitment) — scene 1 ("The caterers left at ten forty...") — type: reactive — change: Theo moves from public failure to a bounded written offer while withholding the nephew truth. Evidence: line 25 "What he hadn't said could stay his to manage for eight Tuesdays" and line 33 "It ends December 8... No details past that, no performance." EXIT: ON-TURN; the scene ends with the first true, bounded contract: line 37 "Including me... was the first true thing he'd given her that came with no cover attached."
- STATE-CHANGED(power / danger) — scene 2 ("The three weeks filled...") — type: proactive montage — change: Odile's language edits and the nontransferable slot turn a social lie into paperwork. Evidence: line 39 "A FINAL CLASS FOR EIGHT COUPLES... struck *couples* and wrote *pairs*" and line 45 "SLOTS ARE ISSUED TO THE TWO NAMES AS ENROLLED AND ARE NONTRANSFERABLE." EXIT: ON-TURN; line 47 "PARK / BRENNAN herself" carries the turn into the pickup.
- STATE-CHANGED(knowledge / commitment / intimacy) — scene 3 ("She came at ten past four...") — type: proactive — change: June receives the packet, understands the nontransferable trap, extracts boundaries, and signs the receipt. Evidence: line 75 "Nontransferable. Walk me through it," line 143 "Eight Tuesdays, then done," and line 149 "She signed above her name." EXIT: ON-TURN; the last beat leaves Theo with a filed commitment, line 165 "packets: 8 of 8 collected."

Chapter verdict: ALL-SCENES-CHANGE.

Weakest surviving state-change: scene 2 risks becoming logistics, but it survives because the logistics alter power; "the sentence as a person instead of as staff" (line 45) makes the paperwork's consequence legible.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
