# Wisdom-Dispensing Mentor-Scene Audit - Chapter 14

Scene audited: Odile's entrance and catalog instruction.

- CLEAN - mentor does not explain the chapter's lesson. Strongest candidate: "`Labels are not apologies.`" Why it survives: it answers June's label worry in five words and points to objects, not self-knowledge.
- CLEAN - no oracle monologue. Evidence: Odile's whole intervention is practical: "`Stockroom. Third shelf, left side. The gray spines. Bring them out.`" and "`All of them.`"
- CLEAN - wisdom converted to logistics. Evidence: Odile moves the catalog stack into Theo's hands; she does not discuss fake dating, couplehood, honesty, or Theo's family tie.
- CLEAN - protagonist agency remains compromised but active. Evidence: Theo chooses to give June the tote: "`There's a bag.`" Odile sets the conditions, Theo performs the care move.
- CLEAN - strongest failure candidate: "`Fewer words than you are planning.`" This could be aphoristic, but it is specific to wall labels and followed immediately by stockroom directions.

Chapter verdict: `MENTOR-SCENE-CLEAN`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
