All seven files read. The two Round 1 blockers (voice-card epigram density, rupture knowledge contradiction) are genuinely fixed, but the revision left the skeleton's reread-plant list pointing at pre-revision chapter numbers — a small but load-bearing desync that chapter cards would consume directly. Full audit:

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VERDICT: REVISE BEFORE CHAPTER CARDS
(one surgical high finding — a sync edit to the skeleton's reread-plant list; no structural
rework needed. Everything else is a medium card-level watch item.)

ROUND 1 FIX VERIFICATION

Claude round_1_reader_pressure:
- 1. Voice cards as epigram generators (blocking): FIXED
  evidence: global rule added (style_and_voice.md:10): half of ordinary dialogue functional/
  unquotable, Odile sole high-density license, Ruth capped at one sharp line per appearance
  (also enforced in her tics, line 335). The offending exemplars are gone: June's "chair
  making several bad decisions" replaced by plain lines ("Can I see it again?", "That part
  works. Sorry. I realize that makes things worse."); Ruth's "unpaid labor," Luis's "shim,
  not sympathy," Sam's "locked door with better grammar," Mara's "weather systems" all
  removed. Theo's confession line lost its device-narrating clause — now "Do you want
  coffee? I can also just sit here." (line 83). Blind-sort works: June self-undermining
  precision, Ruth distinction-questions, Luis placement facts, Odile imperatives no longer
  share one engine. Residue: Sam's "Labels are for folders until they are for safety" and
  Ben's "not a personality" are still aphorism-grade — acceptable as marked peak-register
  anchors, watch in cards.

- 2. Rupture injury contradicts June's knowledge (blocking): FIXED
  evidence: skeleton.md:132-134 is exactly the ordered knowledge paragraph — June knows
  employee status from night one; Ch 02 ask explicitly leans on the employee cover ("I can't
  embarrass my boss at her opening," skeleton.md:67); Ch 17's grievance is restated as what
  kinship alone changes ("the 'boss' excuse hid a nephew's safety net... family theater,"
  skeleton.md:82); Theo's card carries the voice for it ("I said boss because it was true.
  It just wasn't the whole truth," style_and_voice.md:84). Passes the acceptance test: the
  grievance sentence is false on day-one knowledge, true only after the acknowledgment page.
  Note: premise.md:47 ("a stranger as roped-in as she was") remains compatible read as
  June's-side belief — stranger to *her*, roped in by boss-pressure. Do not re-litigate.

- 3. June static ch 18-22 (high): FIXED
  evidence: decline moved to Ch 22 ("accepts the New York install contract... declines
  Philadelphia before receiving Theo's apology"); Ch 18 is now pure rupture and explicitly
  "does not send the final refusal yet"; corridor desire beats exist (Ch 18 "painting toward
  the joint piece alone," Ch 20 "misses the cohort as a scene, not summary"). Exactly one
  chapter owns the decision.

- 4. Stay materially unfunded (high): FIXED at architecture level
  evidence: Ch 09 seeds a January contract + shared-studio/sublet lead via June's own
  install network; Ch 22 accepts it; Ch 26 "confirms her January New York scaffolding
  without Theo/Odile." Sourced outside Theo/Odile as ordered. Specifics remain — see new
  finding 7.

- 5. June severed from intimate assignments (high): FIXED
  evidence: Ch 13 (June POV) is now the Week 5 class — she receives Theo's memory, paints
  him "from inside her own attention," and the cover kiss lands the same night; Ch 12
  became Theo's off-Tuesday memory-choice chapter. Matches the ordered swap exactly.

- 6. Lie never in jeopardy (high): PARTIAL
  evidence: Ch 04 "Mara's friendly cover-story questions force June/Theo to improvise in
  sync"; Ch 06 "Ruth's misread... surfaces obliquely to Theo"; Ch 02 gap contact scene;
  Ch 03 opens on the cost of having said yes. But the third ordered beat — performing is
  harder because the feelings are real — sits in Ch 12, which is *before* the kiss. The
  acceptance test required one such beat after Ch 13; chapters 14-16 contain none (Ch 14 is
  internal aftermath, not public performance under observation).
  remaining order: card-level only — stage one public-couple beat post-kiss, cheapest inside
  Ch 16's class scene (they are publicly partnered during the fear assignment) or the cold
  open of Ch 14 if a cohort witness is present.

- 7. One fake kiss, no aftermath (medium): FIXED
  evidence: Ch 14 "Opens in kiss aftermath while Theo performs logistics badly"; Ch 24
  specifies "first real kiss." June-side processing gap persists — see new finding 2.

- 8. Cohort runs on Theo's axis (medium): PARTIAL
  evidence: the actual problem is fixed — Mara/Luis reassigned to "social/visual placement
  rather than repair" (skeleton.md:52) and Luis's card now says "contrasts Theo's usefulness
  trap... rather than fixing" (style_and_voice.md:226); the "mirrors Theo" line is gone.
  But the reassignment created new collisions on the inclusion/seating axis — see new
  finding 3 (the "no noun repeats" acceptance test still fails).

- 9. Repair answers Theo's arc, not June's wound (medium): FIXED
  evidence: Ch 23 "the painting is offered after the apology, not as the apology"; Ch 24
  "Asymmetry answered first, portrait second"; the painting's origin predates the rupture
  (Ch 08: "his hidden sketch of June begins as a discarded Week 3 study"; Ch 21 "resumes,"
  not begins). Both acceptance tests pass.

- 10. Ch 21 unspecified hinge (medium): FIXED
  evidence: the ordered three-line information ledger is in the Ch 21 row (skeleton.md:86);
  the admitted portion ("Odile trapped him because he needed prying loose") is truthful-but-
  partial on reread. Drafting hazard remains — see new finding 5.

- 11. Wall label as banned speech (medium): FIXED
  evidence: label text fixed at architecture level, 9 words, zero relationship narration
  ("After Class. Two underpaintings of one room, finished together." skeleton.md:138);
  disclosure loaded onto visible underpaintings + Ruth's one-line inference (Ch 27).

Codex round_1_continuity_causality:
- 1. Refusal sequenced twice: FIXED (Ch 18 recognizes the trap without refusing; Ch 22 makes
  the call and the recommendation; ordering preserved before confession).
- 2. September-October gap: FIXED (assignment card/supply list addressed to both,
  nontransferable materials packet, supply-pickup contact scene in Ch 02; Ch 03 opens on
  the cost of saying yes). June's gap-period art-adjacent job contrast is delegated to cards
  via revision_plan.md:10 — keep it there.
- 3. Label under-designed: FIXED (see Claude 11).
- 4. Faced-to-wall canvas dropped: FIXED (Ch 27: Theo's painting "faced to the wall until
  June decides"; Ch 28: June chooses visibility — consent object, outside public disclosure).
- 5. Offer non-strawman guardrails: FIXED at this layer (Ch 15 "genuinely good... rewards
  the art-adjacent safety she already knows"; Nia's card holds the line at
  style_and_voice.md:409, 415).
- 6. Over-polished sample lines: FIXED (see Claude 1).
- 7. Odile elasticity line leaks reveal: FIXED ("Couple is a word" removed — now "Looking is
  the assignment"; pre-reveal guardrail added at style_and_voice.md:151 banning exactly
  that statement before Ch 28).
- 8. Ruth's cost not in map: FIXED (Ch 11: "Ruth/Sam's private disagreement... gets a
  visible cost"; Ch 20 aftermath "care without advice"; her card carries "Sam thinks I
  waited too long.").

NEW OR REMAINING FINDINGS

1. high — Reread-plant list is desynchronized from the revised chapter map
   evidence: Plant 4 (skeleton.md:118) places the joint-showcase announcement in Ch 12; the
   map moved it to Ch 13 when Week 5 became June's chapter (skeleton.md:78). Plant 5
   (skeleton.md:119) places the catalog handoff in Ch 16; the map puts the loan in Ch 14
   (skeleton.md:79) and Ch 17 confirms it ("Using the catalog Theo lent her"). Cards
   generated from the plant list as written would double-stage the catalog handoff and
   misplace the announcement — corrupting the Ch 13/14/16/17 chain that carries both the
   midpoint and the discovery. Also, plant 2 requires Odile seating people at the Ch 04
   diner, but the Ch 04 row never states she attends.
   revision order: renumber plant 4 → Ch 13 (announcement comes only after Odile sees the
   memory paintings, same logic, new location); plant 5 → Ch 14 (stage Odile present at or
   aware of the loan — "lets Theo hand June the catalog stack" survives intact); add Odile's
   presence to the Ch 04 row so plant 2 has a body in the room.
   acceptance test: all seven plants name chapters whose map rows contain the planted event;
   the catalog changes hands exactly once.

2. medium — June's POV is romantically silent between the kiss and the discovery
   evidence: after Ch 13, June's only pre-rupture chapter is Ch 15, whose function line is
   purely vocational. The premise's own midpoint logic — "the fake relationship now has an
   expiry date that the real feelings don't" (premise.md:56) — is never expressed in her
   POV; Theo gets the aftermath (Ch 14). Extends the PARTIAL on Claude 6/7.
   revision order: in the Ch 15 card, the offer must be weighed against a week that now
   contains a real kiss — one clause of expiry-clock tension in her interiority; stage the
   post-kiss public-performance beat in Ch 16's class scene.
   acceptance test: one performed-vs-real beat exists between Ch 13 and Ch 17, and Ch 15
   contains at least one line where the offer's start date collides with the kiss.

3. medium — Care-move mechanism collisions on the inclusion/seating axis
   evidence: Luis "adjusts where people sit/stand" (skeleton.md:52) vs Sam "moves chairs...
   making space at tables" (skeleton.md:60, style_and_voice.md:347); Mara "remembers who
   has not been asked in" vs June's premise-assigned "re-threads excluded people back in";
   Priya "quietly handles food needs" vs Odile "feeds people without comment."
   revision order: differentiate by mechanism in cards — Luis owns sightlines (seeing and
   being seen, optical/gallery logic), Sam owns chairs/belonging, Mara owns the verbal
   invitation, June owns conversational re-threading plus precise praise; tilt Priya toward
   fatigue/body conditions and leave food to Odile. One rescue per scene.
   acceptance test: in any multi-character scene card, no two characters perform the same
   rescue; the one-line axis list has no repeated mechanism.

4. medium — Ch 13 is overloaded
   evidence: one 2,700-3,100-word chapter carries the received-memory painting, the
   showcase announcement, the cover kiss, and the formal Philadelphia offer (skeleton.md:78).
   The premise binds these to the same *week*, not the same scene (premise.md:56).
   revision order: in the card, make the offer's arrival the final beat (a notification, not
   a scene) and push its contents to Ch 15's opening; kiss is the climax beat.
   acceptance test: Ch 13 card has at most three dramatized beats, kiss last.

5. medium — Ch 21 needs a behavior instruction for Odile, not just the ledger
   evidence: the ledger fixes *what* is withheld, but if Theo's confrontation includes the
   fake-couple fact, Odile reacting with surprise is an active lie that fails the reread
   test (READING_GUIDE.md:83); denial in dialogue is banned by her card only for the
   elasticity statement, not for feigned ignorance generally.
   revision order: card instruction — Odile never verbally claims ignorance; she deflects
   materially (arranges, feeds, assigns) per her stress response (style_and_voice.md:134),
   and her admissions stay inside the ledger's "admitted" line.
   acceptance test: no Ch 21 Odile line is false when reread after Ch 28.

6. medium — Plant 1 staging vs Theo's narration transparency
   evidence: Theo, who knows the couple is fake, observes the partner→couple card edits in
   Ch 02 (skeleton.md:115), and his card requires he "must not pretend ignorance"
   (style_and_voice.md:98). Unmanaged, he should suspect Odile is targeting them.
   revision order: give Theo an innocent-but-true rationalization in the Ch 02 card — Odile
   habitually corrects card wording (her established tic, style_and_voice.md:147), so he
   files it as fussing, not signal.
   acceptance test: a rereader sees the plant; a first-pass reader sees a tic; Theo's
   interiority suppresses nothing he'd plausibly think.

7. medium — Stay-scaffolding specifics still owe the reader arithmetic
   evidence: "shared-studio/sublet lead" (skeleton.md:74) is one slashed noun covering both
   housing and workspace; June "dismisses as impossible" in Ch 09 and accepts in Ch 22 with
   no stated material change; lease ends mid-December and she confirms only in Ch 26.
   revision order: in cards, split the lead into named housing and named studio, and make
   the impossible→possible flip causal — the January install contract changes the math, not
   the mood.
   acceptance test: Claude finding 4's original test, with specifics: where does June live
   and paint in January and what pays for it — answerable without Theo, Odile, or hand-waving.

8. medium — Unseeded card prerequisites
   evidence: Ch 22 has June "recommend another overlooked artist to Nia," but no earlier
   chapter seeds who that is (Codex's open question, still open); the gallery and diner are
   still unnamed (Codex flagged both as needed before drafting).
   revision order: seed the recommended artist in Ch 09 or Ch 15 (her install network is
   already on the page in Ch 09); name the gallery and diner in the card pass.
   acceptance test: the Ch 22 recommendation names a person the reader has met or heard of;
   no placeholder names survive into prose.

DO NOT BREAK
- skeleton.md:132-134 (June's pre-Ch-17 knowledge paragraph) is now the source of truth for
  Ch 01/02/17; premise.md:47 is compatible read as June's-side belief — do not "fix" it back.
- Same-night fusion of fear assignment and discovery (Ch 16→17), and the catalog
  acknowledgment as the mechanism, with the loan staying in Ch 14.
- Ch 22 placement of the Philadelphia refusal: after rupture and self-choice pressure,
  before confession; Ch 18's explicit not-yet.
- The 9-word label, verbatim, with disclosure carried by the underpaintings and Ruth's
  single inference line — no relationship narration anywhere near the wall.
- The faced-to-wall portrait as June's consent object (Ch 27/28), outside public disclosure.
- Ch 21's ledger, especially the withheld line.
- The suspended-order confession at the diner, now without the explaining clause — keep it
  unexplained on the page.
- Week 5 in June's POV with the kiss landing the same night.
- Odile's pre-reveal guardrail (style_and_voice.md:151) and her one-license quip economy.
- New York scaffolding sourced exclusively from June's own network.
```

The short version: both Round 1 blockers are properly fixed — the revision was done with care, including the acceptance-test details (the de-explained confession line, the ledger, the sketch origin predating the rupture). The single thing I'd gate on is the reread-plant list still pointing at the pre-revision chapter numbers for plants 4 and 5; since chapter cards will be generated straight from that list, it would double-stage the catalog handoff and misplace the showcase announcement in the four chapters that carry the midpoint and the discovery. That's a two-line skeleton edit plus one staging note for Ch 04. After that, this passes — the remaining eight items are genuinely card-level watch items, not architecture problems.
