# Counter-Strip Audit - Chapter 16

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- `NOT-OVERSTRIPPED - comedy` - after removing portable quips, the opening still has Mara's direct fame line, Ben's zones, Sam's table move, and Theo's distrust of a correct chair count.
- `NOT-OVERSTRIPPED - figuration` - after cutting baby-teeth/fuse/clementine similes, the chapter retains drowned salmon, outlet plate, ghosted boxes, blank ground under bulb, and Odile's pair-hanging language.
- `NOT-OVERSTRIPPED - interiority` - Theo's guilt remains legible through `"correct custody"`, `"wrong pile"`, `*Odile's my aunt*`, and `"plan making itself useful"`.
- `NOT-OVERSTRIPPED - care moves` - Priya's clementine relocation survives; Theo's catalog offer survives; Sam's furniture move survives.

Chapter verdict: `COUNTER-STRIP-CLEAN`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
