# Surprise Audit - Chapter 12

## Criterion Verdicts

- Contains an unpredicted move beyond "they exchange memories": PASS. The strongest surprise is June insisting the outlet plate and screws are "the true part," moving the memory away from a symbolic white wall and into process.
- Surprise is character-rooted: PASS. Theo's best memory is not dramatic pain but unassigned childhood drawing; June's memory hurts because she did the erasure well.
- Surprise pays premise specificity: PASS. Chicken-thigh ghost, clothespins, primer order, and Decorator's White are specific to this book's art/work language.
- Avoids twistiness: PASS. No revelation is used as a gimmick.

## Verdict

PASS.
