Clarify Sabine's one-week invitation

story_artifacts/the-fortune-below/book-two-existing-material-audit-13-chapters.md

@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@ Author decisions recorded after the audit:
 - Sabine voluntarily chooses Cerys's room and transport after the emergency purchase.
 - Corin gives all four women 50,000 crowns; the allocations are accomplished gifts, not merely proposals.
 - Cerys's compensation is 500 crowns plus a separate 100-crown allowance.
-- Cerys remains at home with her family during a one-week break after release, with no work obligation. Sabine
+- Cerys remains at home with her family during a one-week break after release, with no work obligation.
-  later receives the same one-week decision period.
+- Cerys later asks Sabine to give life at the estate one honest week before deciding against it. Sabine may
+  leave at any time and may stay as long as she wants; the week is a requested trial, not a limit.
 - `Shopping With Corin` is a shared crossover scene and may appear in both Book Two and the side novel.
 - Sabine and Cerys's first-night bond experiment remains in Book Two, including Sabine taking a cold bath at
   the ending. It serves the book's ownership, choice, and consent themes.
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ Paths below are relative to the external Fortune Below corpus unless stated othe
 | Cerys free outing | `book-two/scenes/fortune-below-book-two-cerys-girls-night-out-scene.md` | Rewrite/extract | Keep self-funded leisure and friendship. The long intercourse recap duplicates the complete scene and should be removed. |
 | Sabine emergency purchase | `book-two/scenes/fortune-below-book-two-short-sabine-purchase.md` | Rewrite | Strong sale deadline, Gilded Door threat, 9,600-crown purchase, Quill protection, and estate arrival. Must resolve whether Cerys compels the journey or Sabine chooses it. |
 | Sabine first night | `book-two/scenes/fortune-below-book-two-sabine-cerys-bedroom-bond-experiment.md` | Keep/trim | Keep locks, food, clothing, debt questions, the deliberate bond experiment, and Sabine's cold-bath ending. Preserve the distinction between active legal ownership and Sabine's requested experiment. |
-| Sabine release | `book-two/scenes/fortune-below-book-two-short-sabine-release.md` | Keep/rewrite | Strong prompt release, document ownership, fixed guest term, money, and transport. Add durable housing/work alternatives and direct accountability if the journey was compelled. |
+| Sabine release | `book-two/scenes/fortune-below-book-two-short-sabine-release.md` | Keep/rewrite | Strong prompt release, document ownership, money, and transport. Reframe the week as Cerys asking Sabine to give the estate a fair try, while preserving Sabine's right to leave immediately or stay indefinitely. |
 | Sabine departure and return | `book-two/scenes/fortune-below-book-two-sabine-cerys-first-night-free.md` | Split/rewrite | Keep unsupervised departure, inspected alternatives, chosen return, and visible release papers. Remove the later private erotic material from mainline. |
 | Sabine employment | `book-two/scenes/fortune-below-book-two-sabine-shopping-with-corin-scene.md` | Shared crossover | Keep the employment transition and cute relational opening. Use one controlled text in both Book Two and the side novel so the two copies cannot drift. |
 | Sabine first estate bath | `book-two/scenes/fortune-below-book-two-sabine-first-estate-bath-scene.md` | Rewrite/shorten | Keep bodily autonomy, professional belonging, and a small externally observable interest in Corin. Private romantic setup belongs to the side novel. |
@@ -93,7 +94,8 @@ the blueprint and update the estate budget consistently.
 The release draft negotiates employment almost immediately. Move that negotiation until after a one-week break.
 Cerys does not want to leave her home, family, or feelings for Corin, and freedom should not require her to
 perform departure. During the week she keeps her room and belonging without duties; any cooking or household
-help is voluntary. At the end she may choose paid work. Sabine later receives the same one-week decision period.
+help is voluntary. At the end she may choose paid work. This is distinct from Sabine's later invitation: Cerys
+asks Sabine to try the estate for one week, but Sabine may leave sooner or remain as long as she wants.
 
 ### 4. Sabine's Journey To Safety
 
@@ -133,7 +135,7 @@ why the decisive character choice loses force when reported afterward.
 | 8 | **Check Properly** | `short-cerys-first-intimacy` plus trimmed next-morning scene | Cerys initiates the relationship as a free woman, chooses the stopping point, sleeps beside Corin, and permits limited public acknowledgment. |
 | 9 | **What She Asked For** | Trimmed advice scene plus `short-cerys-first-sex` | Cerys identifies her own wants and chooses the next threshold. Remove later recap duplication. End with an established free relationship. |
 | 10 | **Purchased Time** | `short-sabine-purchase` plus `sabine-cerys-bedroom-bond-experiment` | Stop the sale, establish Cerys as temporary claim holder, protect transfer, and let Sabine voluntarily choose Cerys's room and transport. Keep the requested bond experiment and cold-bath ending without treating it as permission beyond that night. |
-| 11 | **Seven Days** | `short-sabine-release` plus first half of `sabine-cerys-first-night-free` | Prompt release, durable alternatives, an obligation-free week at the estate, unsupervised investigation of other choices, and chosen return for the first free night. |
+| 11 | **Seven Days** | `short-sabine-release` plus first half of `sabine-cerys-first-night-free` | Prompt release and durable alternatives. Cerys asks Sabine to give the estate one honest week for her, without making it a deadline: Sabine can leave immediately or stay indefinitely. Sabine investigates other choices and returns freely. |
 | 12 | **Shopping With Corin** | Full controlled crossover scene, first-bath autonomy, and `short-ending-choices` | Sabine negotiates the provisioning role, accepts paid authority, and demonstrates one consequential purchasing decision. The same scene opens the side novel. |
 | 13 | **Doors Open Both Ways** | Mostly new; folded-route plans and household aftermath | Keep the dungeon off-page and the explanation simple. Selka reports that the route can reopen under her conditions and retains her maps. Close on Cerys and Sabine remaining by choice, with one unexplained public hint that the side story continues. |