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### Knowledge map | Character/group | Knows at start | Learns in chapter | Knows by end | Must not know yet | |---|---|---|---|---| | Core group | Previous route and immediate survival facts | Chapter-specific pressure | Updated physical and emotional state | Steve is alive, radio payoff, later arrivals | | New/feature
### Forbidden knowledge Do not drop them straight into apocalypse competence. Show misunderstanding, denial, bodies, phones, neighbors, sirens, doors. Also: no narrator future-summary language, no proof of Steve, no Part 3 radio logic.
### Objects, vehicles, supplies, body, and logistics Track vehicles, fuel, water, food, medical bag, clean cloth, weapons, maps, Theo supplies if present, Henry belongings if present, Steve sign kit if present, Scout, Beta, sleeping arrangements, and who can physically carry what.
### Children, animals, injuries, pregnancy, and medical continuity Children and animals are structural, not decorative. Theo and Henry require appropriate care. Scout and Beta affect movement. Wounds, infection, exhaustion, menstruation, hygiene, and sleep debt must remain continuous.
### Relationship state at opening To be expanded in skeleton pass. Always check Clexa, Ronance, Vauseman, SwanQueen if present, plus Finchel once introduced.
### Emotional shift in the chapter The shift must happen through scene: choices, body, objects, argument, touch, route, and risk.
### Relationship state at ending Update only what the scene actually changes. Do not jump ahead emotionally.
### Constraints The chapter must feel like fanfic and story, not a technical report. Logistics must be alive, voiced, intimate, funny, painful, or dangerous.
### Future seeds Allowed only as physical details or incomplete present knowledge.
### How future seeds are allowed in prose Through present-tense objects, actions, blocking, incomplete knowledge, and character-specific perception.
### How future seeds are forbidden in prose No reader-facing explanation, no prophecy language, no `they did not know yet`, no future-summary framing.
### Active-file contradictions to resolve Check during skeleton pass against `canon_ledger.md`, `chapters_summaries.md`, `worklist_by_parts_part2.md`, and adjacent chapter entries.
### Files to update after this chapter `chapters_summaries.md`, `part2_chapter_logic_map.md`, `worklist_by_parts_part2.md`, and `canon_ledger.md` if canon changes.
### Status Full organized planning slot. Awaiting new skeleton pass.
## Chapter 031, The Old Ending Never Got to Finish
### Existing working summary Chapter 031 covers roughly nine months of Alex and Piper in motion after leaving the apartment. The chapter is not a summary bridge. It is a full Vauseman road-survival chapter: unfinished prison-marriage history, Day Zero aftershock, shelter failures, supply runs, water, illness, sex, argu
### Chapter role in Part 2 To give Vauseman a real standalone pre-Theo survival arc before motherhood arrives. The chapter proves that Alex and Piper are not together only because of the baby. They are already a messy, damaged, intimate survival unit before Theo changes the road.
### Physical opening Immediately after Chapter 030: Alex and Piper have left the apartment with limited supplies, unfinished relationship wreckage, partial survival knowledge, and no stable route.
### Physical ending A veterinary clinic / roadside clinic / small medical-adjacent shelter near month 9. Thea has died after childbirth. Theo is alive, newborn, unnamed, crying, fragile and physically urgent. Living dead are drawn by the sound. Alex and Piper escape with the baby and Thea's identifying object / wallet
### What the previous chapter leaves that must matter here Chapter 030 leaves Alex and Piper outside the apartment after roughly two weeks of Day Zero collapse, with survival supplies, water/food scarcity awareness, sound-attraction learned only as a partial observed pattern, and unresolved marital intimacy. They know