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+### 1. PROSE EVIDENCE
+*   **Quote 1 (Early):** "The archive's monitors flickered into blankness, one after another, as if the facility itself had exhaled its last breath of data."
+    *   *Commentary:* This effectively establishes the "erasure" theme by personifying the technology as a dying organism.
+*   **Quote 2 (Mid):** "The air density in the sub-level was shifting. Each breath required more effort, the oxygen feeling thick, syrupy, as if the atmosphere were being pressurized by an invisible hand."
+    *   *Commentary:* The use of "syrupy" provides a strong tactile metaphor that aligns with the project’s focus on the physical weight of the Signal.
+*   **Quote 3 (Late):** "The scent of wet iron filled his lungs, drowning out the air. He reached up, clutching his temples as his skull began to vibrate with the force of a tectonic shift."
+    *   *Commentary:* This successfully integrates the "wet iron" olfactory motif established in the world-state RAG.
+*   **Quote 4 (Late):** "The room was no longer a room; it was a drifting island in a void of high-amplitude sound."
+    *   *Commentary:* This reinforces the "Geometric Dissolution" rule by emphasizing the loss of physical boundaries.
+
+### 2. CHARACTER VOICE AUDIT
+**Character: Mark**
+*   **Line:** "Empirically speaking... join us."
+*   **Signature Vocabulary/Tics:** **NO.** The phrase "Empirically speaking" is the signature verbal tic for **Sarah Miller**, not Mark.
+*   **Avoids Forbidden Patterns:** **NO.** Mark’s profile states: "Never mentions Sarah or Elias by name." The text has him thinking/hearing their names repeatedly.
+*   **Emotional Register Consistent:** **YES.** He remains detached and analytical ("He didn't panic. He analyzed.") which aligns with his "witnessing" state.
+
+**Violation Details:** The line "Empirically speaking... join us" (Late) violates the Sarah Miller profile which assigns that specific phrase to her "rational standpoint." Mark using it—even as a vessel—needs to be clearer as a possession/integration rather than a voice slip. Furthermore, the RAG states Mark's sensory focus: "Never mentions Sarah or Elias by name, as they are now just 'harmonics'." The narrative mentions them four times.
+
+### 3. STRENGTHS TO PRESERVE
+*   **Sensory Internalization:** The mechanics of "The Bone-Conduction Law" are well-executed: "It came from the marrow of his own jawbone" (Mid). This matches the requirement that all sound is now internal.
+*   **World-State Integration:** The reference to the "North American craton" and the "wet iron" scent (Late) grounds the speculative elements in the established RAG context.
+*   **Pacing of Dissolution:** The gradual loss of the digital recorder ("The leather turned to gray mist" - Late) effectively illustrates the "Ontological muting" world rule.
+
+### 4. MUST-FIX -- CONTINUITY
+*   **ORIGINAL:** "Mark clutches his temples, the hum resolving into his own voice whispering from within: 'Empirically speaking... join us.'"
+*   **PROBLEM:** This violates Sarah Miller’s voice signature ("prefixes doubts with 'empirically speaking'") and misattributes it to Mark. While the signal is integrating them, using a character's specific "Signature Move" without clear italicization or framing as a "Sarah-harmonic" creates voice confusion.
+*   **FIX:** "Mark clutches his temples, the hum resolving into a harmonic that wasn't his—Sarah’s signature dissonance: 'Empirically speaking... join us.'"
+
+*   **ORIGINAL:** "The names didn't trigger an emotional response... Thorne, Elias. Miller, Sarah."
+*   **PROBLEM:** Mark’s Voice Sig (RAG) explicitly states: "Never mentions Sarah or Elias by name, as they are now just 'harmonics'."
+*   **FIX:** "The identifiers didn't trigger an emotional response... Subject Alpha. Subject Beta. The harmonics of the previously living."
+
+*   **ORIGINAL:** "his hands hovering over a keyboard... He sat in the recessed lighting of Sub-Level 4... Archive Administration."
+*   **PROBLEM:** The World State RAG for ch-10 states Mark's location is "The Miller Residence cellar (The Epicenter)" and the Archive is "EXTINCT... neutralized." This chapter places him in an Archive facility.
+*   **FIX:** Redefine the setting to the cellar, or frame the "Archive Sub-Level 4" as a hallucination/geometric distortion of the cellar as reality dissolves. (Given Mark's arc is at 35%, he should be at the Epicenter).
+
+### 5. MUST-FIX -- CLARITY
+*   **ORIGINAL:** "Mark pulled back from the console. He was a creature of the Archive... current data suggested a breach of Newtonian reality."
+*   **PROBLEM:** If the Archive is "EXTINCT" per the RAG, it is unclear if Mark is a ghost, a remnant, or if this is a flashback.
+*   **FIX:** Clarify that the Archive facility is currently undergoing "Geometric Dissolution" into the cellar void. "The reinforced steel of Sub-Level 4 was thinning, bleeding away into the damp stone of a cellar he had never entered, yet currently inhabited."
+
+### 6. OPTIONAL SUGGESTIONS
+*   **Suggestion:** Enhance the "Tactile Metaphor" requirement.
+*   **Quote:** "The air density in the sub-level was shifting." (Mid)
+*   **Improvement:** Use more of Mark's specific "Voice Sig" (crushing, grinding). "The air didn't just shift; it began to grind against his skin, a crushing weight of 14Hz silence."
+
+### 7. FORBIDDEN CHANGES / NON-GOALS
+*   **The 14Hz Frequency:** Do not alter the frequency number; it is a core world rule.
+*   **Detached Tone:** Do not make Mark panic. His "detached/witnessing" state is a requirement of his ch-10 character state.
+*   **Sensory Focus:** Mark reaching for the "scent of copper" and "wet iron" must remain as it is his primary mode of perception now that auditory processing is internal.
+
+### 8. VERDICT
+**SCORE: 72**
+**JUSTIFICATION:** The chapter contains multiple major continuity violations regarding the RAG. Specifically, Mark is in the wrong location (Archive vs. Miller Cellar), mentions prohibited names (Sarah/Elias), and uses another character's unique verbal tic ("Empirically speaking") without adequate narrative justification.
+
+**REVISE**