# Dialogue Doctor - Chapter 10 - Round: Reader-Directive Sweep (2026-07-24)

Scope: full cold re-read after Odile-warmth and tail edits: "On Tuesdays you are a student. I have the rest." appended to the room-stays ruling; "Finally." added to the looked-at-one-thing verdict with decoding interiority ("that had been the praise"); shine-tail and jar-of-brushes button trimmed. Updated style rules applied. Prior rounds preserved on disk.

Odile-delta verification against her updated card:
- "You do not work here on Tuesdays." unchanged; now reads protective rather than curt in the softened field. CLEAN.
- "The room stays as it is, Brennan. On Tuesdays you are a student. I have the rest." - the addition converts refusal into inclusion plus reassurance; three short sentences, imperative shape retained. CLEAN.
- "You looked at one thing for an hour. Finally." - praise made audible; the follow-through narration ("There was no rest; that had been the praise.") decodes without over-explaining; checked against tail-button rule: it is interiority resolving an expectation, not a zinger. CLEAN.
- "Only if coffee is the love of his life." / "Then you posed all evening. You just didn't know it." / "Lock up. Do not improve anything." - unchanged, licensed, now consistent with the friendlier card. CLEAN.

Chapter-level re-verification:
- 1/2: CLEAN - June/Theo closing exchange alternates probe and confession with varied lengths ("It is the one with your name on it." as the turn).
- 3: CLEAN throughout Theo's failure-to-have-a-thing arc.
- 5: CLEAN - "Brennan." / "It was tipping." / "Sit down. You are standing in her light." is three distinct functions.
- FAKE-SHARP: CLEAN - counter-candidate "People paint a hand holding a brush like a fist around a dagger." survives as craft-mechanism in June's register.
- Remaining modes CLEAN.

OVERALL: CLEAN
