# Chapter 24 Ending Quality Audit - Current Text

LANDS - scene 1 - final lines quoted: `"It was the only thing, June had learned this fall, that Odile ever really watched"` (L13) - what closes the beat: Odile's gaze is on people reading work, arming showcase/reveal pressure. Strongest weak candidate: the line is slightly aphoristic; it survives because it is an observed action and sets Odile's scene function.

LANDS - scene 2 - final lines quoted: `"Sam was good at that: stepping aside before anyone had to ask"` (L31) - closes the beat through Sam's room-making rather than speech. No stillness failure.

LANDS - scene 3 - final lines quoted: `"because it wasn't hers to tell and she knew the difference"` (L57) - closes Ruth's privacy payoff. Strongest weak candidate: could over-explain; it survives because the chapter needs the public/private boundary legible.

LANDS - scene 4 - final lines quoted: `"Worse for you, better for the party"` (L75) - closes with June's specific dry voice after Theo's restraint practice.

LANDS - scene 5 - final lines quoted: `"checked out to no one, waiting on a wall"` (L85) - closes the storage beat by putting the public artifact into future-life custody. Strongest weak candidate: `"waiting on a wall"` has resonance; it is materially grounded in the flat-file state.

LANDS - scene 6 - final lines quoted: `"She took her coat down off the hook"` (L107) - closes the portrait beat with action, not thesis.

LANDS - scene 7 - final lines quoted: `"the one whose name got written down without her"` (L131) - closes Odile reveal through June taking custody of the page. Strongest weak candidate: explanatory moral edge; it survives because the torn page is the action.

LANDS - scene 8 / chapter-final - final lines quoted: `"She had a long cold way to go and eight hundred dollars due Thursday, and she went"` (L161) - closes with movement, material cost, and no rescue. No stillness, skyline, grand gesture, or weather-only ending.

Chapter verdict: `ENDINGS-CLEAN`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
