All evidence is gathered and verified. The output directory is gitignored so there's no diff history, but the round-1 audit's verbatim quotes serve as the before-text record. Here is the completed round-2 audit:

# Voice Check — Chapters 06–10 — Round 2 Verification

Scope: post-repair verification of the eight orders in `voice_check_10.md` against the current `chapter_06.md`–`chapter_10.md`, the Codex repair memo (`voice_check_10_repair_memo.md`, all eight orders accepted, none rejected), `output/style_and_voice.md`, READING_GUIDE §2/§4/§6, `reading_guide_bans.tsv`, `tics.md`, and the mechanical gate report (PASS, open=0, allowlisted=0, WATCH=247 across ch06/07/08/10 — ch09 absent from the report because no order touched it; its round-1 gate state stands). The chapter 07 calibration sample (lines 56–70) was re-checked verbatim against the round-1 quotation: untouched by repairs, still the anchor. This round verifies; it does not re-litigate round-1 adjudications on unchanged text.

## Order-by-order verification

1. **EXECUTED.** ch07:88 now reads "At Ruth's easel she paused over a small, exact Sam, every proportion audited, and moved on." The "which from Odile was a medal" caption is gone; the pause and the move-on carry the beat, per the ch10 precedent. Dialogue-diagnosis count for the span: zero.
2. **EXECUTED.** "Wet paint, it turned out, was the kind of problem you could fall into" is cut from ch10. The paragraph now ends on the observed fact: "The work light put a hard shine on the wet grey where she'd mixed it, and he gave the shine ten minutes it possibly didn't deserve." (ch10:63). Grep confirms zero "it turned out" in the span; the cut also removed one generic-you.
3. **EXECUTED.** All four named cuts verified: "That suited her." (ch07:22, full-stop verdict); "That was the new problem." (ch08:31); "Ratifying Mara's plan cost nothing." (ch08:63, folded into the needs-inventory); "said nothing. He took it for patience." (ch10:71). All named survivors intact (ch08:17, ch09:115, ch10:11, sample-protected ch07:64). Remaining narration ", which" per chapter: ch06 zero (both hits are Mara's and Ben's speech); ch07 two unprotected ("which did not need retying," 30; "which she allowed because the line was long," 108 — both causal/observational, round-1 raw-count survivors); ch08 three, none evaluative (17 named; "which lay on the bench," 89, and "which tonight had one extra item on it," 115, are information-bearing relatives round 1 never flagged); ch10 three (11 named; 57 and 61 are descriptive relatives from round 1's raw count, unflagged, unchanged). No instance performs the verdict-stamp function. Target state met.
4. **EXECUTED.** "Theo let the count stand." is cut; the ch08 paragraph ends "It was the second time tonight she had done that." (ch08:99). Grep for the let/left-it family across the span returns only the round-1-adjudicated literal at ch06:49 ("Priya saw that and let it stay there" — the clementine, an object).
5. **EXECUTED.** "He was prepared to call that restraint." is cut (ch06:9 now ends on the concrete "He had not laminated it.", which is fact, not maxim). "Nobody checked what was not listed." is replaced with concrete facts in Theo's idiom: "*Boss* had passed because every public fact supported it. The contact sheet had no line for the key in his pocket or the way a message reached Odile before it became official." (ch06:119). ch06 coin count is now two — "Theo did not hate it fast enough." (17) and the ordered keeper "Both were his pockets." (121) — at cap.
6. **EXECUTED.** "Calling it early would have misunderstood the job." is cut; ch10:9 runs the procedural fact the order specified ("He was on time for the part of class that nobody else attended."). With order 2's cut, ch10 coins stand at the two keepers: "The story had been easy when it only had to hold up in front of strangers." (45) and "It did not say, what can you do correctly." (141). At cap.
7. **EXECUTED.** The doubled-subject echo is gone: "There was a saved seat inside, next to June, with Mara's folded jacket keeping it from becoming anyone else's." (ch08:39). The repair also added a short defended-booth exchange (ch08:33–37) to ground the jacket — adjudicated under new-text checks below; it is clean (Priya's "It wasn't magnificent, it was a head count" is her licensed dry correction, in speech, plain and followable). The not-X-but-Y family is back at its one allowed survivor (ch08:109, the chapter hinge).
8. **EXECUTED, with one unlogged over-execution.** ch10:103 now opens on the concrete beats as ordered: "Mara announced Sonia's and an intention to order for whoever came last. Priya capped Ben's pen for him." — and the pen-capping pays off the line-19 plant. Discrepancy: the ch08 instance the order said to keep ("They broke up the way the group broke up now, with logistics.") is also absent from the current ch08:101, and the memo logs no ch08 change for this order. Output is gitignored, so the round-1 verbatim quote is the only before-record, and it is conclusive: the sentence was removed. This is a deviation from the order's letter, not a defect — the formula family now stands at zero instead of its one licensed use, and the ch08 paragraph reads cleanly without it ("Priya and Ben left first, Ben holding the door…"). No action; logged for memo accuracy.

## New-text regression check (asks 1–6, applied to repair-introduced prose)

1. **Rhythm — CLEAN.** Every replacement matches the sample's stop pattern: full-stop verdicts ("That suited her." / "That was the new problem."), fact-closers ("He had not laminated it."), object beats (the folded jacket, the capped pen). Strongest counter-candidate: "He took it for patience." (ch10:71) — a new short verdict sentence — survives because it is Theo misreading June in his own plain idiom, and the chapter immediately falsifies it (she was painting him the whole time).
2. **Banned phrases — CLEAN.** Fresh verbatim sweep: `load[- ]?bearing` 0 hits all five chapters (grep and gate concur); breath-catching, flips/flutters/pooling/electricity, "something shifted"/"the air changed," smirk/chuckle/"a beat," postcard NYC, "golden hour," mirror epiphany — 0 hits each. The one standalone-"Oh." reservation remains unspent (ch06:57 "Oh." still continues inside Ben's paragraph). No new dialogue diagnosis: the closest new candidate, "*Boss* had passed because every public fact supported it." (ch06:119), is truth-status checking of the cover story against facts — the licensed mode per the round-1 ch09:69 ruling — not a rating of anyone's phrasing.
3. **AI-sounding constructions — CLEAN.** No repair reintroduced a template: zero "it turned out," not-X-but-Y at its one survivor, refusal-to-conclude at zero new instances, evaluative ", which" at target. Nearest call in new text: the repair at ch06:119 creates a verbatim phrase twin with ch06:165 ("before it became official" twice, 46 lines apart). It reads as deliberate reprise — Theo re-runs the same channel fact when testing names at chapter's end — but it is repair-introduced and worth one line in the tracker (watch note 8), not an order.
4. **Anachronism — CLEAN.** New text is all object-and-logistics register (contact sheet, key, folded jacket, pen). Nothing off-period, nothing off-card.
5. **Repetitive metaphors — CLEAN.** No new figurative material was introduced by any repair; the replacements are deliberately literal. "With Mara's folded jacket keeping it from becoming anyone else's" (ch08:39) is the nearest figure-adjacent line and it is a literal seat-saving function rendered as Mara's owned hosting move, not secret-object personification.
6. **Sentence length — CLEAN.** The cuts removed four standalone stamp-sentences and one hedge; paragraph-closer variety improves at every repair site. The ch06 route-card refrain now sits beside two coins instead of four, which is what round 1 said it needed to stay refrain rather than metronome.

**VOICE SCORE: 8.5/10** — Round 1's 7/10 was costed entirely to surgical findings: the zero-tolerance ch07:88 twin, three regressed round-1 templates, coin density at double cap, and a self-twinned transition formula. All eight orders are verified executed against the current text, with no replacement line going polished-but-dead and the calibration sample untouched. What holds the score below higher: nothing is *wrong*, but several families now ride at exactly their ceilings (Theo coins at 2/2 in ch06 and ch10, Odile at 5 in two consecutive class chapters, recognitional simile at seven across the span, hands at maximum sanctioned exposure) and the Theo cold-open chassis is spent — the span has no headroom, and chapter 11 inherits a book that must vary, not just comply.

**POLISHED-BUT-DEAD ZONES: NONE.** Nearest call among the new lines: "Ratifying Mara's plan cost nothing." (ch08:63) — a compressed verdict that could be any competent novel's sentence in isolation; it survives because it sits first in Theo's four-item needs-inventory and inherits the inventory's escalation toward "June needed the night to stay exactly this size." Second-nearest: "He took it for patience." (ch10:71), defended under ask 1.

**REVISION ORDERS: NONE.** No blocker remains; no new finding was introduced by the repairs.

**OVERALL: VOICE-HOLDS**

**Watch notes for `output/tics.md` (carried forward and corrected, all non-blocking):**
1. **Odile quotability:** ch10 confirmed at exactly 5 (lines 17, 37, 79, 99, 137 — unchanged by repairs, recounted); ch07 also ran 5. Two consecutive class chapters at ceiling: the next class chapter must actually run ~3. The ch10 tics.md row is still missing and should record this.
2. **Hands, ch10:** sanctioned week-4 showcase holds post-repair (zero almost-touch, parts under load, task-anchored; gate's narrower counter reads 24 tokens, round-1 manual hand-family count ~36 — repairs removed no hands content). From ch11, hands revert to at-most-once-foregrounded per chapter.
3. **"the way you/people" recognitional simile:** still 7 across the span (the ch10:63 cut removed an adjacent generic-you but no listed instance). Cap at one per chapter from ch11.
4. **Theo cold-open template** (solitary maintenance + self-audit coin): 3-for-3 across 06/08/10, spent. Next Theo chapter opens in company, mid-dialogue, or off-task.
5. **June filing figures:** ch07's licensed-once ruling stands; verified still zero in ch09/10. Any June filing/ledger figure in ch11+ is a finding.
6. **"The math" refrain:** spent as ch08's fiscal spine; not Theo's default decision idiom in ch11+. June's uses stay literal-money, dialogue-only.
7. **ch08 secret-object personification count correction:** record 5 per round 1 (add line 109 to the logged 4); note additionally that "the red folder sat beside him as if it had been invited too" (ch08:77) belongs to the same family and was never logged — conservative count 6. Text unchanged since round 1; no order. Family stays at zero until the rupture, verified obeyed in ch09/10.
8. **New, repair-introduced:** "before it became official" now appears verbatim twice in ch06 (lines 119 and 165). Reads as deliberate reprise of the channel fact; editor may vary one instance at assembly. No third use.
9. **Evaluative ", which" and refusal-to-conclude:** orders executed; both families return to monitored-at-cap on the per-chapter gate radar, having regressed once.
10. **Transition-formula family ("broke up the way…"):** now at zero, not one — the ch08 instance was removed along with ch10's, beyond order 8's letter and unlogged in the repair memo. Harmless; the construction's one licensed use is unspent if ever wanted.
