# Chapter 23 Consequence Test - Current Text

STATE-CHANGED(power / commitment) — scene 1 ("The chairs were down off the rack") — type: proactive — change: Theo converts prior gallery failure into a check-out system and a January work boundary Odile accepts. Evidence: `"CHECK-OUT"` with signatures at L5; `"Tuesday mornings ... blank, and it stays blank"` at L21; Odile pockets the sheet and sits to watch at L23. EXIT: ON-TURN. Weakest candidate: chair-counting could be nerves only; it survives because the scene exits with a changed work arrangement.

STATE-CHANGED(knowledge / intimacy) — scene 2 ("June came in at four") — type: proactive — change: June brings hidden leaving-side panels into the shared room and Theo sees her fall studies for the first time. Evidence: `"four small panels"` at L35 and Theo's read, `"Every one of them was the room leaving"` at L39. EXIT: ON-TURN at `"they started"` (L41).

STATE-CHANGED(self-understanding / commitment) — scene 3 ("He meant to spend the first hour") — type: proactive — change: Theo chooses not to smooth the seam or correct June's half, and then chooses which of his own errors to leave visible. Evidence: `"The only way to make the seam vanish was to pick one door"` (L47), `"Mine"`/hand withdrawal (L63), and `"He was doing it on purpose"` (L65). EXIT: ON-TURN at light/dark meeting without either fixing the other (L73).

STATE-CHANGED(knowledge / commitment) — scene 4 ("Her phone went off") — type: reactive — change: June's Ridgewood room gets dates/money pressure, Theo withholds rescue, and June says the Asha/Tasker choice aloud without reversing it. Evidence: `"Keys January second"` (L81), Theo's four withheld fixes (L83), `"The helpful version costs me the room"` (L87), and `"I'm not sorry I'm not going"` (L89). EXIT: ON-TURN.

STATE-CHANGED(relationship / commitment / institutional power) — scene 5 ("Priya and Ben came in") — type: reactive/proactive hybrid — change: Priya and Ben choose the slower apartment path and Odile submits to Theo's form. Evidence: `"We passed. For now"` (L105), Priya's condition (L109), and Odile signing the drawings out (L115). EXIT: ON-TURN.

STATE-CHANGED(artifact / knowledge / intimacy) — scene 6 ("By half six") — type: proactive — change: the finished piece and final label become fixed without explanatory wall text. Evidence: the two-vantage read at L119 and final label `"Two underpaintings of one room, finished together"` (L143). EXIT: ON-TURN at Theo letting the two cards be two cards (L151).

STATE-CHANGED(artifact / commitment / public consequence) — scene 7 ("The last thing was the tape") — type: proactive — change: the seam is physically revealed, the piece is placed for the showcase, the portrait remains consent-governed, and the cohort arrives. Evidence: bare priming at L161, mounted label/piece placement at L163, `"June would turn it tonight or she wouldn't"` (L165), and `"Theo went to prop the second door"` (L177). EXIT: ON-TURN.

Chapter verdict: `ALL-SCENES-CHANGE`. Weakest state-change is scene 2 because it is mostly looking, but it survives: June's hidden studies enter the shared work and supply the visual source for her half.

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