Saga parts chapter summaries and bridge

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Chapter 195, Matt / Julie, Chapter 2

General role: Continue Matt and Julie’s road until the city encounter. They arrive with five children and must be planned through food, sleep, fear, clothes, sickness, and parental exhaustion, not as symbolic softness.

Receives: Chapter 194 establishes their old world, family structure, road logic, and why they cannot continue alone.

Must preserve: city systems must stay physical; core couples must remain emotionally visible; children, animals, food, water, gates, injuries, roads, rescue routes, and living-world danger cannot disappear because the chapter has theme.

Handoff: Chapter 196 receives the encounter, where the city must make room for ordinary family life as a real civic pillar.

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