# Codex Chapter-Card Verification Round 3

VERDICT: PASS TO DRAFTING

No blocking/high findings remain.

ROUND 2 REPAIR CHECK

- Nia/Philadelphia deadline: PASS. Ch 15 sets "Friday, December 4"; Ch 18 keeps "the still-live December 4 offer deadline"; Ch 22 closes "before Nia's December 4 deadline expires."
- Ch 13 Ruth/kiss mechanics: PASS. Ch 13 now uses "Mara wants partner photos," "the assembled cohort can see any refusal," and "Mara's camera and the assembled cohort make performance visible." Ruth is no longer active pressure there.
- `After Class` premise distribution: PASS. Ch 13 names only "the same studio room"; Ch 18 gives June "studies of the agreed studio room as someone leaving it sees it"; Ch 19 gives Theo "underpainting the room as kept ready for return"; Ch 25 forbids naming the metaphor aloud.
- Ch 16 knowledge state: PASS. Theo's wrong-first image is now "generic leaving - boxes, keys, an emptied wall"; the card explicitly says "Theo does not know about the Philadelphia offer."
- Ch 10 canvases: PASS. The card now distinguishes "June's canvas of Theo's hands" from "Theo's canvas of June's hands."
- Odile/mentor flags: PASS. Ch 01, Ch 02, Ch 03, Ch 05, Ch 07, Ch 10, Ch 13, Ch 14, Ch 16, Ch 19, Ch 21, Ch 25, Ch 27, and Ch 28 carry `flag:mentor-scene`; malformed `flag:reaction_divergence` has been removed.
- Ch 27 payoff load: PASS. The live cohort payoffs are named as "Mara/Luis's piece with Mara not translating Luis" and "Ruth/Sam presenting without explaining their category"; Priya/Ben are paid in Ch 26.
- Ch 14 `Winter Kitchen`: PASS. Ch 14 now sanctions invocation 2/5 during catalog browsing, giving the thesis painting a mid-book recurrence before the possible final invocation.

NEW OR REMAINING FINDINGS

1. medium Drafting watch: Ch 13 remains dense even after repair.
   evidence: The card still contains memory paintings, showcase announcement, room agreement, flyer-photo pressure, kiss, and offer notification.
   why it matters: This is playable only if the announcement/room agreement is truly compact and the offer remains the last beat.
   exact patch: no card patch needed; copy the scene-order guardrail verbatim into the Ch 13 drafting packet.

2. medium Drafting watch: Ch 16 must not over-explain the fear-canvas logic.
   evidence: The card's four-object line is necessarily explicit.
   why it matters: The prose should make the objects visible and let the class reaction carry the meaning, not narrate the thesis.
   exact patch: no card patch needed; in Ch 16 packet, ban explanatory dialogue and narrator paraphrase after the canvases are seen.

DO NOT BREAK

- June declines Philadelphia before confession and before the December 4 deadline.
- Theo does not know about the Philadelphia offer before Ch 17.
- Ch 13 offer remains final beat only.
- Odile's knowing remains protected until Ch 28.
- The class never learns Theo is Odile's nephew.
- The portrait remains consent-governed.
