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### World / body / threat Months must pass through body, not summary: weather progression, food, water, clean cloth, bandages, fire/light cost, dead near shelter, avoided living people, Scout warnings.
### Exit point Steve leaves alive. His current fate remains unknown.
### Time / place / weather Roughly Months12–14 for Steve recovery, then the separation and over two months with the moving wounded group toward the Month16 Shell present.
### POV / focus Steve during recovery; Clarke and Raven through care, practical friction and attachment rather than a medical montage.
### Emotional engine Steve wants to search before his body can bear it. Being loved by strangers does not replace Robin and Nancy.
### Physical cast Steve, Clarke, Raven and Scout; later the moving wounded group after Steve departs. Ronance are known through accounts, not physically present.
### Canon locks Months of recovery, offline phone work, shared parent-horror and eventual separation for incompatible responsibilities.
### Failure points No live phone network, instant walkie contact, romantic triangle with caregivers or current-location knowledge after he leaves.
### Not solved Steve's later fate is unknown. Clarke/Raven's duty to other wounded people cannot be erased to provide Ronance an address.
### Carry-forward and handoff Steve leaves alive. His current fate remains unknown.
### Knowledge map Clarke/Raven learn Steve's identity and history gradually; Nancy/Robin do not receive these scenes as knowledge. After the separation nobody in the Shell group knows whether Steve reached Virginia or what followed.
### Injuries Carry injuries and their material aftermath from the required beats; no healing reset between scenes. Steve's store injury is not a bite.
### Children / animals Scout is physically present and needs water, rest and an actual position. Beta has not entered; no children join the pack here.
### Vehicles and separation / approach to Shell After months of recovery, Steve heads toward Virginia according to the destination he remembers. Clarke and Raven accompany only part of that route, then stay with wounded people Steve cannot wait for. They spend more than two months in a moving group across several shel
## Chapter 015, Four Women and One Dog
### Purpose Clarke reveals at Shell that Steve survived for a time, without giving closure.
### Required beats 1. Trigger through name/object/jacket/Scout/Clarke's recognition. 2. Clarke tells Nancy and Robin Steve survived for a time, recovered and left to search. 3. No one knows where he is now. 4. Robin momentarily blames Nancy, then breaks and clings to her. 5. Nancy does not defend herself and would tak
### World / body / threat Shell interior under cold/damp conditions. Limited light, watch needs, water/food, Scout and possibly weather outside. The emotional scene cannot erase the station's body.
### Exit point Ronance know Steve survived for a time. Hope without address enters the room.
### Time / place / weather Shell Day20, cold damp interior with guarded low light. No time jump caused by the preceding retrospective chapters.