# Dialogue Doctor - Chapter 13 - Round: Reader-Directive Sweep (2026-07-24)

Scope: full cold re-read after the joint-piece subject exchange was expanded ("You can..." trail-off and bare "No title," replaced with connected turns: "You take whatever the room does that I don't see." / "I'll know it when I'm standing in it... And no title. If it needs one later, it can earn one."). Updated style rules applied. Prior rounds preserved on disk.

SCENE S1 (setup, Mara/June): all modes CLEAN - Mara's "I'm not asking the next question if you don't want it." / "Then I won't. The black is doing things for you." remains her card's warmth.

SCENE S2 (painting, Odile passes): all modes CLEAN - "Better." / "Than what?" / "Than when you liked it." is licensed teaching; back-to-back easel exchanges ("Do you need the card?" / "No." / "You can ask.") earn their tension.

SCENE S3 (trade view): all modes CLEAN - "Sat. Not sprawled." / "Don't. It looks like a room." distinct-function short beats.

SCENE S4 (showcase announcement + subject):
- 2: CLEAN post-expansion - the exchange now completes its thought instead of jump-cutting to "No title,"; June's interiority ("She could feel herself starting to arrange his half... and stopped.") registers the restraint.
- FAKE-SHARP on new material: "If it needs one later, it can earn one." checked against aphorism shape: it is a decision statement in June's earn-vocabulary, speakable; retained on balance. Odile's "Acceptable." unchanged.
- Remaining modes CLEAN.

SCENE S5 (flyer photo + kiss): all modes CLEAN - "Committee chairs," (Ruth) and "Absolutely not," (Ruth) within her one-sharp-line budget across two beats; checked and the drawer line is not in this chapter.

SCENE S6 (cleanup/sidewalk): all modes CLEAN - post-kiss staccato ("Old jacket, Theo." / "Right.") is the earned exception; Nia text handled with legible interiority ("true in the same limited way *boss* had once been true").

OVERALL: CLEAN
