# Chapter 21 Set-Piece Intensity Audit

## SET PIECE: Theo/Odile true-partial confrontation

spec: "Odile admits a true partial trap for Theo but withholds knowing June/Theo were fake"; "Theo sets a boundary"; "Odile few lines."

rendering: `"I put that page where you would find it. On purpose."` / `"I'm done being the route..."` / `"next to his entry on the loan sheet... she wrote her own initials, *O.M.*"`

locked text present verbatim: n/a

verdict: HITS

reasoning: The beat lands because the dialogue refuses full confession while giving an object-action confession. The surrounding prose does not soften Odile into a mentor or absolve Theo: `"It was partly your fault"` and `"You will be less convenient"` keep the cost live.

misses: none.

revisions: none.

## SET PIECE: Faced-to-wall portrait

spec: "pay S-PORTRAIT-01 as finished faced-to-wall object"; "the portrait is offered after the apology in Ch 22, not as the apology"; "the painting demands consent rather than display."

rendering: `"he narrowed the angle until the geometry said what the night had said"` / `"he was not going to invent a cheekbone he'd never witnessed"` / `"painted side faced to the wall, the labeled bar outward"` / `"He did not put it in a crate."`

locked text present verbatim: n/a

verdict: HITS

reasoning: The chapter makes the set piece land through revisions to the actual image: door angle, absent cheekbone, light edge, label, and faced-to-wall storage. The strongest line is not a declaration of love; it is a non-delivery action, `"He did not put it in a crate."`

misses: none.

revisions: none.

Chapter verdict: `ALL-HIT`.
