# Chapter 24 Set-Piece Intensity Audit - Current Text

Trigger: high-leverage final showcase/coda.

PASS - set piece has a clear pressure sequence: public display L17-L31, cohort care/object payoffs L35-L57, private storage/portrait L79-L107, Odile reveal L111-L131, final snow/walk L149-L161.

PASS - intensity varies instead of peaking once. Public embarrassment is low and warm; portrait is private ache; Odile is ethical confrontation; snow is quiet material close.

PASS - stakes are visible through objects, not speeches. Evidence: bare seam L19, blue dish L39-L43, flat file L85, portrait L99-L105, ledger page L115-L131, jar/snow L155-L161.

WATCH - The Odile reveal paragraph L127 is the densest set-piece explanation. Later prose audits may thin, but the current set piece does not collapse into exposition.

Chapter verdict: `SET-PIECE-HOLDS`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
