# Chapter 21 Conversation-Variety Audit

chapter: 21 | conversations audited: 1 full dialogue + 1 attempted text contact | pairs with prior history: 2 | flagged: 0

## SPEAKERS: Theo + Odile — ch 21 instance after prior Theo/Odile logistics/assignment confrontations

- `STAKE-SHIFT: VARIED — this: "I'm done being the route" vs prior (ch19): Odile's "From here" was material instruction during Week 7; Ch21 is Theo naming the instrumentality back at her.`
- `FORMAT: VARIED — this: private stockroom confrontation over a loan sheet vs prior: class/studio assignment pressure and rack/stool logistics.`
- `LENGTH: VARIED — this is a sustained two-person confrontation; prior Odile/Theo pressure often arrives as brief instructions ("From here") or task logistics.`
- `TEMPORAL: VARIED — this is Friday morning catalog aftermath, not Tuesday class time.`
- `REGISTER: VARIED — this is direct accusation/partial confession; prior conversations leaned instruction, evasion, and public teacher-room pressure.`
- `EARNS-ITS-PLACE: EARNS — payoff quoted: "she wrote her own initials, *O.M.*, small and square" — strongest skim-risk passage considered: the shelf/logging setup; a skimming reader would lose the concrete non-June route and why the confrontation is forced.`
- Conversation verdict: `VARIED+EARNS`.

## CONTACT: Theo -> June — ch 21 outgoing text after prior rupture/no-chair text

- `STAKE-SHIFT: VARIED — this: "Can we talk? Sonia's..." plus "If you'd rather not, I understand" vs prior Ch18/Ch17 state: June refused immediate repair and Theo sent only "Okay. No chair."`
- `FORMAT: REPEATED — both are spare text-message contacts, but the repetition is justified by stake: the prior text honored absence; this one asks and then exposes his reflex to soften refusal before June answers.`
- `LENGTH: VARIED — this is a brief concrete ask plus one hedge, not the single no-chair acknowledgment.`
- `TEMPORAL: VARIED — this happens after Theo has made the portrait consent-governed and after June's Ch20 decision, not during rupture night.`
- `REGISTER: VARIED — this is plain request plus failed restraint, not compliance with a rupture order.`
- `EARNS-ITS-PLACE: EARNS — payoff quoted: "The second bubble appeared under the first before he could take it back." — strongest skim-risk passage considered: the dark-phone wait; a skimming reader would lose that Ch21 withholds June's answer and makes Ch22 own it.`
- Conversation verdict: `VARIED+EARNS`.

Revision orders: none.
