# Interchangeability Test - Chapter 09

CHARACTER-SPECIFIC - "Her knees told her about the concrete floor through the drop cloth and she told them it was billable" (June) - would break if reassigned because June deflects discomfort through invoice/work precision.

CHARACTER-SPECIFIC - "let the white thin out over the gray... a value run" (June) - would break if reassigned because her interiority is edge/value/color and lapsed-painter shame.

CHARACTER-SPECIFIC - "June read it once and got mad... *I didn't say it was a favor*" (June) - would break if reassigned because her card says she mistakes being understood for being pitied.

CHARACTER-SPECIFIC - "Asha checked her phone... 'Six weeks. Pays late. Pays real. I can send both'" (Asha) - would break if reassigned because her card is fast work-network shorthand and practical generosity.

CHARACTER-SPECIFIC - "June... did not say that she had spent six years not catching up" (June) - would break if reassigned because six-year painting lapse is June's wound.

CHARACTER-SPECIFIC - "tightened one hand on the rail" (June) - would break if reassigned because it is worksite restraint while withholding visual expertise.

CHARACTER-SPECIFIC - chapter ending "foamcore stuck up... she did not push it down" (June) - would break if reassigned because the object is June's private reawakened-making evidence.

Closest-to-interchangeable elements:
1. "watched the cursor blink" could belong to many characters, but here it is tied to the deleted Nia reply.
2. "brushed crumbs onto the drop cloth" could be generic, but belongs to Asha's worksite physicality and gets followed by her 2019 hustle-math line.
3. "the phone buzzed" is neutral machinery, but it is not load-bearing characterization.

Chapter verdict: DISTINCT.

REVISION ORDERS: None.
