Saga parts chapter summaries and bridge

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Chapter 183, Root / Shaw, Chapter 2

General role: Continue Root and Shaw’s road until the city becomes visible as both opportunity and threat. Their road should show living-world pressure, other survivors, moving vehicles or avoided contact, not blank geography.

Receives: Chapter 182 has opened their Day Zero / road history and the mature city frame.

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 184 receives the actual encounter point, with the city ready to decide whether dangerous usefulness can enter without rewriting its ethics.

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