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### Carry-forward and handoff Chapter005 must return to the same Month16 rainy-night encounter from Nancy/Robin POV, reproduce the shared overlap exactly, continue beyond `Don't move`, and end only after Nancy and Robin have crossed inside Shell. Chapter006 opens from the next physical second/state inside.
### Injuries Costia's fatal bite/death remains the central first-week wound. Later injuries belong only where the approved survival arc establishes them. No future-character wound is imported into Lexa's Day Zero line.
### Children / animals Use only children/animals actually present in the selected temporary-survivor scenes. Scout and Beta do not appear in Chapter001 before their later physical introductions.
### Couples / relationships Lexa and Costia receive lived domestic tenderness before and during the collapse; grief is carried through body, chain, photographs and repeated habits. Their foster-system background exists but is not front-loaded. At the exit Lexa identifies Nancy/Robin's couple dynamic through ordinary c
## Chapter 002, The Day Hawkins Stopped Answering
### Purpose Establish Nancy, Robin and Steve as full people inside their families and friendships before Day Zero, then strand the three together far from Hawkins when the simultaneous first wave destroys their senior school trip. Let them survive the first several days in an Indianapolis library, acquire knowledge sl
### Required beats 1. **Day -1, Hawkins:** open through the Wheeler household and ordinary life. Holly is physically present; Ted is clearly Nancy/Mike's father; Karen is clearly Nancy/Mike/Holly's mother and practically mothers Mike's close friend group through food, correction, familiarity and expectation rather tha
### World / body / threat Day -1 through approximately Day4/5, early summer. The first wave is simultaneous and institution-breaking. Infrastructure degrades in layers. The library is not safe because the plot says so; it is a real building with doors, windows, water, toilets, bodies, noise, other survivors, finite fo
### Time / place / weather Ordinary Hawkins on Day -1; overnight/two-day senior trip to Indianapolis on Day0; Indianapolis library and immediate city through at least three nights; end approximately Day4/5 on the road toward Hawkins. Early-summer heat/weather must affect bodies and shelter.
### POV / focus Nancy anchors family/route/decision pressure. Robin and Steve have full agency and their own fear/competence. The school group is a real starting population but is not converted into a roster of off-page fates once chaos separates them.
### Emotional engine Three people who already know one another in unequal ways lose every adult structure around them at once. The chapter turns old-world familiarity into first survival reliance without making Ronance a couple or Steve a sacrificial caretaker.
### Physical cast Day -1 Hawkins: Nancy, Robin, Steve, Karen, Ted, Holly, Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Will and only other ordinary characters actually required by the scene. Senior-trip opening: Nancy, Robin, Steve, teachers/chaperones and classmates as needed. Sustained survival: Nancy, Robin, Steve and temporary Indianapol
### Knowledge map Nobody knows the cause. Nancy/Robin/Steve begin with old-world explanations, then observations, then tentative inference, then protocol. They do not know the fate of the school group once separated. They do not know their families' later movements. Virginia is not known as a route in this chapter. Th
### Objects Nancy retains her own phone; Steve retains his own phone; Robin's period-appropriate personal items remain with her if physically established. Maps, library supplies and any food/water taken must have visible custody. The acquired vehicle's keys and fuel are tracked from acquisition into Chapter003.
### Vehicles The senior-trip bus belongs to the school trip and does not conveniently remain their safe ride after the group collapses. The trio's exit vehicle is separately acquired in Indianapolis through a lived scene with keys/access, fuel, seats and loading. Chapter003 must receive that exact vehicle until an on-
### Canon locks Steve/Robin are platonic soulmates/chosen family. Nancy/Steve have real past tenderness without a triangle. Ronance are not yet a couple. Robin's perception line is seeded through ordinary sound/road/social detail, not supernatural skill. Denise/Mrs. Carlisle material may be adapted to Indianapolis. Th
### Failure points No Day Zero in Hawkins for the trio, no younger-boys senior trip, no instant emergency route, no first-headshot certainty, no fixed reanimation timer, no perfectly organized school evacuation, no author-knowledge hint about Robin's parents or Steve's parents, no Virginia direction, no premature Rona
### Not solved The trio does not know who from the school trip survived. Family locations beyond any brief early contact remain uncertain. No Virginia route is established. Hawkins itself is not reached.
### Carry-forward and handoff Chapter003 receives Nancy, Robin and Steve together in the exact Indianapolis exit vehicle, with several days of learned but still incomplete survival knowledge, deteriorating communications, finite supplies, and one urgent objective: get back to Hawkins.
### Injuries Carry only injuries physically earned during the school collapse/library escape. Do not import Steve's parental-contact scratches; those belong to Chapter003. Any wound must be checked against bite exposure without granting mature bite protocol before the evidence exists.