# Cover-the-Names Voice Test - Chapter 06

- Theo narration: DISTINCT. Evidence: `route card`, `closing times`, `stair count`, `gallery keys`, and `Every one of those routes had him standing in the middle of it` keep his logistical tenderness and usefulness wound audible.
- June dialogue: DISTINCT. Evidence: `I was going to start at the front`; `I can answer that. We don't live together`; `Black. Separate.` Compact, visually/agency precise.
- Ruth dialogue: DISTINCT. Evidence: `who can she tell who isn't you?` and `I saw enough to be worried. Not enough to be right.` Exact, privacy-aware, incomplete.
- Sam dialogue/action: DISTINCT. Evidence: `Stand here. Not symbolically. You can actually see all three from here`; they make literal room and apply pressure through movement.
- Priya dialogue/action: DISTINCT. Evidence: `You've been on your feet since five. Stool`; brisk body-condition care.
- Ben dialogue: DISTINCT. Evidence: `Rent math is not a proposal`; `I have three theories`; planning anxiety and self-correction.
- Mara/Luis: DISTINCT. Evidence: Mara's `I want a ruling`; Luis's `The floor slopes. The painting's level.`

Strongest counter-candidate: Sam's `Two blocks. Say it or let it go` could sound like Ruth's exactness. It passes because Sam's line is spatial/room-making pressure, not editorial diagnosis.

Chapter verdict: VOICES-DISTINCT.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
