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Chapter 060, The Thing That No Longer Fit in One Car

Summary: Chapter 60 opens Part 3 as the first full movement day after the birth of the convoy. The convoy discovers the problem is not shortage but too much life and essential gear compressed into three vehicles after the Finchel truck was stripped: water, medicine, Raven's tools, Theo's supplies, blankets, food, Steve signs, Scout, and Beta. Alex and Regina try to turn chaos into system without erasing each other; Nancy holds route and signs; Raven fights physics; Lexa and Emma hold perimeter; and the couples receive touch inside work. A small malfunction on the road proves the gear that saves them can also endanger them when it blocks doors and access, and that they lack both space and reliable communication between vehicles. The chapter ends with the convoy working and alive, but unable to breathe inside three vehicles anymore, handing the Avalance/Waverider block the physical need for a larger vehicle and a communications system, without a prior radio moment and without new information about Steve.

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