## C12 · Someone lays the cloth flat

**Complete source:** Original fiction. A familiar broad cloth on a level mat begins flat. An adult gently lifts one edge; it bends while held. After release the edge remains low and bent. The adult then separately lays it flat. This fourth act is recorded. No spontaneous return to flat or exact force measure is supplied. The cloth is an imagined paper-game scenery piece, not a real animal shelter.

**Own invitation:** Which shape followed release and which followed a new adult act?

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**Source-supported possibility:** The low bend follows release; flatness follows the separate laying-flat act. Deleting the fourth act falsely attributes flattening to release alone. Source reasoning can identify this distinction without an actual cloth trial.

**Unknown/limits:** Keep every missing force, path, future attempt, actual child operation and player response within this source’s stated limits. A complete fictional record is source evidence, not performed-investigation evidence.

**Full next teaching:** Use C11’s three paper moments, where no extra arranging act is supplied. Ask which shape is recorded at rest and what a new act would need its own label for. Listen for the source’s actual sequence instead of a universal return rule.

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