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### Couples / relationships Pair work allows couples to touch, argue and laugh amid finite supplies; Raven is a person with her own loneliness and humor, not an engineer serving romance. ---
## Chapter 020, Betamax
### Purpose Beta enters as comedy, logistics and a living choice against pure efficiency.
### Required beats 1. Beta is found in a smallholding/fenced yard that tells a human story. 2. She survived because she is stubborn and inconvenient. 3. Place shows cut fence, abandoned food, shed, supplies taken, attempt to keep animals alive, possible human passage. 4. Beta is a real problem: noise, smell, rope, wat
### World / body / threat Weather must affect Beta: wet coat, mud, cold ground, thirst, hunger, shelter. Dead may be drawn by goat noise. Living people traces must be present.
### Exit point Beta physically changes Shell from now on.
### Time / place / weather Shell Day24, muddy daylight at a nearby smallholding, then the return before dark.
### POV / focus Robin at the smallholding and the keep-or-leave argument, with Nancy/Raven providing practical resistance.
### Emotional engine Keeping a noisy inconvenient animal tests whether they can still choose more than maximum efficiency.
### Physical cast Lexa, Clarke, Nancy, Robin, Raven and Scout; Beta is physically present. No children or later entrants.
### Canon locks Beta's first actual appearance is020; Scout has his own reaction. Prior human care and abandonment remain legible in the yard.
### Failure points No instant endless milk/food source, forgotten rope or animal used only as a punchline.
### Not solved Keeping Beta creates continuing feed, water, noise and shelter obligations.
### Carry-forward and handoff Beta physically changes Shell from now on.
### Knowledge map Clarke reveals only Steve's past survival in015; from015 onward the pack still lacks his current location. The deliberate external sign system begins only in026. Future arrivals are not physically present or known merely because the outline mentions them.
### Injuries Lexa's left-thigh knife wound from009 remains restricted: shorter walking, no running/climbing/heavy lifting, clean dressings and protection from cold/wet. No fresh wound is invented to explain continuing limits.
### Children / animals Scout and Beta both need water, shelter, handling and an explicit person responsible during movement. No children are physically present.
### Finding and keeping Beta Nancy, Robin, Raven and Scout find Beta while checking a smallholding for usable rope/feed containers. Clarke stays with Lexa at Shell. Robin persuades the others to bring the animal after Raven finds a usable tether and dry feed remains; Nancy requires an actual return route and water cos
## Chapter 021, Who Works With Whom
### Purpose Test pairings through real work, not personality charts.