The output directory isn't tracked in git, so there's no diff to consult — but the audit quotes the exact offending sentences, so I can verify each order directly against the current text. I have everything I need.

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## Order 1 — June's in-beat self-diagnoses: **VERIFIED**

The prior audit (Finding 1) named three lucid self-captions that relocated June's gets-wrong field — *"mistakes being understood for being pitied; assumes choosing herself requires choosing alone"* — into managed interiority, and ordered at least two cut or converted to enacted behavior, with at most one self-read remaining.

**Thursday drafts beat — converted.** The audited sentence *"It was a true question and a competent one, and sending it tonight would have nothing to do with ceiling height"* no longer exists. The current text (chapter_18.md:31) reads:

> "She opened a reply and typed: *Can you send the fabrication bay floor plan? Ceiling height matters to me.* It was a true question and a competent one. She added *Also, is there decent ventilation?* under it, selected the second question, and deleted it. She left the first one in drafts and closed the laptop."

The pricing clause is gone; the stall is now enacted exactly per the order's prescription (second question added, deleted, draft abandoned, laptop closed). The surviving fragment ("a true question and a competent one") judges the question, not the avoidance — the blind spot operates uncaptioned.

**Friday soup beat — converted.** The audited caption *"She'd told a lie to avoid a dinner so she could paint a room she was also avoiding. Then she rinsed the bowl"* is gone. Current text (chapter_18.md:43):

> "*We saved you a plate,* Mara wrote, and June heated soup from a can. She ate standing up, the wet third study propped against the toaster, the phone facedown beside the bowl. Then she rinsed the bowl."

Again the order's suggested staging, verbatim in spirit: avoidance shown through the propped study and the face-down phone, priced by nothing. The reader clocks it before June does.

**Monday studies beat — retained as the one permitted self-read.** Chapter_18.md:91 keeps *"she was not going to help it arrange itself."* That is exactly the "at most one lucid self-read" allowance. I checked for other surviving self-captions: *"and that was the part that cost"* (line 13) was already ruled FRICTION evidence by the prior audit, not one of the three captions, and stands unchanged; the answering-Theo rationalization (line 95) was instance 4, explicitly endorsed as an unwitting blind spot. The cost-to-preserve condition holds: the drafts stall and the dinner lie now stand undiagnosed, leaving June's pattern discoverable for Ch19–22.

## Order 2 — Mara's Sunday smoothing must misfire visibly: **VERIFIED**

The prior audit (Finding 2) found Mara's field — *"thinks smoothing is always kindness"* — fired only in costume: her *"Keep it!!"* lie defused in two words, and June's farewell-coded *"Thank you for October"* deflected with "no beat mark[ing] that June's half-goodbye went unreceived." The order's primary remedy: June starts a real sentence and Mara's care logistics talk over it, with the pocketed sentence on the page and the cost rendered from June's side.

That remedy is implemented, twice over:

> "Mara glanced toward the corner, where the Corolla's hazards blinked once.
> 'Thank you for October,' she said. 'I don't think I—'
> 'October,' Mara said. 'It's almost December. I'm glad you came. Luis is circling the block; I should go.'" (chapter_18.md:79–83)

June's real sentence is begun (*"I don't think I—"*) and cut off mid-clause by Mara's exit logistics — and the hazard-lights beat puts Mara's attention on the Corolla *before* June even attempts the goodbye, so the miss reads as her instrument failing, not as tact. A smaller instance precedes it: June's *"Mara —"* (line 73) is overridden by *"It's a dish I want back"* plus Tuesday seating instructions. What June pockets unsaid is now literally on the page as an interrupted line.

The cost lands on June's side without captioning Mara (chapter_18.md:85): *"June stood on the corner with the pie... she walked home the long block, not past the gallery, the foil level the whole time like she'd been told."* — perfectly managed, entirely unasked, the order's exact target image. Mara's deftness is intact (the pie device, the face-saving *"It's a dish I want back"*), so she is not softened into quirk; the *"and it worked. ok."* close of the scarf lie stands unchanged, which is fine — the order offered that fix only as an alternative, and the primary fix was taken.

## NEW-TOO-COMPETENT-BLOCKERS-FROM-REPAIR: NONE

I checked the edited passages specifically: the drafts beat introduces no new insight (the residual "true question and a competent one" rates the question, not her behavior); the soup beat is pure action; the Sunday additions ("Mara —", the hazards glance, *"I don't think I—"*, "like she'd been told") contain no dialogue diagnosis (reading guide §2 zero-tolerance rule — nobody characterizes anyone's sentence), no self-caption, and no upgrade of either character toward clean insight. The interruption device stays within the plain-speech floor: a cold reader can say what June attempted and what Mara refused to receive.

## OUT-OF-SCOPE WATCH

- The Wednesday lie's narration now reads *"It would even be true if she started a painting before Friday"* — the prior audit quoted it with an "only." If that word was dropped in this pass, the line reads marginally more self-justifying than self-aware, which is the right direction; noting it only because the wording moved.
- The closing beat (chapter_18.md:99, *"the holes were hers to leave or fix, and tonight she felt like fixing one"*) carries a mild lucidity, but it is decision-through-action, not avoidance-captioning, and was not in this batch's scope.

## OVERALL: ORDERS-VERIFIED
