# Cover-the-Names Voice Test - Chapter 14

Test method: speaker names removed from representative dialogue clusters; lines judged against `output/style_and_voice.md`.

- DISTINCT - Theo - "`Since yesterday afternoon. Edges and all.`" / "`There's a bag.`" / "`Both. I'll count both before Tuesday.`" Evidence: practical offer before feeling, medium-short factual lines, usefulness under pressure. Strongest counter-candidate: "`The tape knows`" could belong to June, but it replies to June's panel joke through Theo's object-care register.
- DISTINCT - June - "`It's a decent brown. Raw umber holds its value.`" / "`Show me the dead seven sometime.`" / "`I read slow when it's good, and I want the bad examples too.`" Evidence: painterly exactness, dry self-protection, visual/craft nouns.
- DISTINCT - Odile - "`Labels are not apologies.`" / "`What do I write, you are about to ask. Fewer words than you are planning.`" / "`All of them.`" Evidence: formal-casual, declarative, no cushioning, acts through instruction.
- DISTINCT - Priya/Ben/Mara group thread - Priya prints and manages outcome; Ben asks material spec with time/place pressure; Mara nudges social framing. Evidence: "`This one. I'm printing forty.`" / "`Forty means cardstock. What weight?`" / "`Don't crop them apart this time, P.`"
- COVER-NAMES stress test - the label/catalog exchange remains attributable because June asks craft-context questions and Theo answers procedure; strongest potential convergence is "`Choose the facts`," but Theo owns it as practical label advice after June names the problem.

Chapter verdict: `VOICES-DISTINCT`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
