# Set-Piece Intensity Audit - Chapter 13

SET PIECE: Week 5 cover kiss / midpoint
  spec: Chapter card says "flyer-photo cover-kiss pressure"; "nobody asks for a kiss, but June chooses one as public repair and it is not only cover"; "felt experience: a bright jolt followed by the phone-lit fact of leaving."
  rendering: "Fine was going onto a flyer... June turned and caught Theo's jacket lapel... He still had a loaded brush in his grip and was holding burnt umber clear of Mara's scarf... The room did not disappear... starting it had not made the next second belong to her."
  locked text present verbatim: n/a
  verdict: HITS
  reasoning: The surrounding prose makes the kiss land by making the photo insufficient before the move, keeping the room present during the kiss, and giving Theo a premise-specific response with the brush/scarf rather than generic swoon.
  misses: none.
  revisions: none.

SET PIECE: Nia formal offer after the kiss
  spec: Chapter card says "final Nia/Philadelphia notification" and "no offer decision."
  rendering: "Nia Torres. *PHL board said yes. They want to make the offer formal. Call tomorrow before you talk yourself out of it.*" and "The signal turned green... the phone dark in the bag."
  locked text present verbatim: n/a
  verdict: HITS
  reasoning: The offer does not compete by melodrama; it arrives as printed/formal fact immediately after desire becomes public, creating the correct next-chapter pressure.
  misses: none.
  revisions: none.

Chapter verdict: `ALL-HIT`.

