# Mentor-Scene Audit - Chapter 01

SCENE gallery offer - elder: Odile, junior: June/Theo.

- marker 1 perfectly calibrated anecdote: ABSENT. Odile gives no past anecdote; evidence: `"No one drops my class. People have stayed married to remain in it"` (69) is a joke/status claim, not advice history.
- marker 2 aphorism delivery: ABSENT. Cleanest possible maxim candidate: `"Come anyway"` (89), which is imperative pressure, not polished wisdom.
- marker 3 graceful reception: ABSENT. June tries to correct her: `"We're not—"` (79) and later retreats to the stockroom (97-99).
- marker 4 everyone-leaves-improved closure: ABSENT. The offer leaves June socially trapped and Theo apologizing (101-109).
- marker 5 missing mess: ABSENT. Mess ledger: public pressure, misread relationship, bystander delight, mushroom canape, and no explanation.

MESS LEDGER: `The room had stopped pretending not to listen` (85); `June stood holding a mushroom` (95); `"There's a stockroom," Theo said. "It has a door"` (97).

Scene verdict: HUMAN.

Chapter verdict: MENTORS-HUMAN.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
