# Dialogue Doctor - Chapter 21 - Round: Reader-Directive Sweep (2026-07-24)

Scope: full cold re-read after: two antecedent repairs in the stockroom confrontation ("never once told anyone in this building it was family", "I put that page where she would find it"; the partly-your-fault echo merged into one Odile turn ending "The rest is mine."); "Odile did not smile." flipped to "Odile nearly smiled." Updated style rules applied. Prior rounds preserved on disk.

SCENE S1 (stockroom confrontation, Odile/Theo):
- 11-adjacent decode check (the round's purpose): both repaired lines now parse on first read; the fault exchange no longer misassigns the echo. CLEAN.
- 2: CLEAN - Theo's pressure builds in full sentences against Odile's short concessions; "Both would have been efficient." / "No. It isn't funny." keeps her self-aware, consistent with the friendlier card.
- 3: CLEAN - "The answer sounded small in the stockroom. He said it again."
- 4: CLEAN - "Did you want her to find it, or did you want me to finally say it?" is a real either/or and she answers it.
- FAKE-SHARP: CLEAN - counter-candidate "You will be less convenient." survives as literal forecast; "There is soup upstairs. Eat." is her care register.
- Remaining modes CLEAN.

SCENE S2 (receipts errand, upstairs):
- Odile-delta: "Odile nearly smiled." tested - one-word-scale warmth about her sister, consistent with softened card; not a narration zinger (it reports an almost-event the scene earns). CLEAN.
- All modes CLEAN - "Sunday dinner was never my errand." / "But you sent errands through it." distinct positions, resolved.

SCENE S3 (study session, solo) and S4 (texts): narration and message content; exclusions applied. Buttons checked: "Fixing it would have meant standing in front of it." and the empty-hands ender kept as plot-bearing. Density within cap.

OVERALL: CLEAN
