# Chapter 02 Dialogue Repair Memo

Source audit: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_02.dialogue_doctor.md`

Claude verdict: `OVERALL: BLOCKING (3 findings)`.

## Accepted Findings And Repairs

1. Missing Theo interiority during Odile's card intervention.
   - Repair: added Theo's thought before Odile strikes the card word: "Theo's first instinct was to tell June this was normal..." This keeps the pre-reveal guardrail intact because Theo does not decode Odile's design; he only recognizes how her ordinary wording fuss looks under June's attention.
   - Repair: added Theo's embarrassed registration after Odile's "Ignore the second paragraph" line: "The second paragraph, unwritten this time, arrived in the room anyway..."

2. Theo's twin epigram caps.
   - Repair: replaced "Whichever survived the pen that day" with "I don't know... I stopped trying to predict the final noun."
   - Repair: replaced "She ran out of nouns" with "I don't know yet... She changes them until she stops."
   - Rationale: keeps Theo in fact-covering and uncertainty rather than June/Odile-style wit.

3. June's over-workshopped diagnosis.
   - Repair: replaced "That had the rhythm of a partial answer" with "On paper."
   - Rationale: preserves June's suspicion and the chapter's paperwork motif while reducing the line's composed-for-quotation feel.

## Protected Lines Preserved

- "That's a lot of rule for an evening class."
- "Eight Tuesdays, then done."
- "The fruit is free. The cards cost three hundred dollars."

## Verification

- Mechanical gate after repair: PASS open=0, allowlisted=0, WATCH=60.
- Awaiting fresh Claude Dialogue Doctor verification under `chapter_02.dialogue_doctor_round2`.
