### Relationship state at opening
To be expanded in skeleton pass. Always check Clexa, Ronance, Vauseman, SwanQueen if present, plus Finchel once introduced.
### Constraints
The chapter must feel like fanfic and story, not a technical report. Logistics must be alive, voiced, intimate, funny, painful, or dangerous.
### 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.
### Approved contract status
Approved in the Part 2 pre-writing pass after source-merging the old `part2_chapter_logic_map.md` with the newer block contracts. This entry replaces older thinner planning for this chapter.
### Chapter role in Part 2
Block: Finchel/Vauseman absorption. The second Vauseman absorption week turns the shelter into a village in miniature around Theo without naming it family yet. Piper builds routine and domestic logistics; Alex builds emergency bags, evacuation marks, and procedures; Robin becomes a voice that
### Physical opening
To be staged from the previous chapter's exact handoff. The chapter must begin with the physical consequences of Chapter 034 visible in people, vehicles, supplies, children, animals, wounds, signs, and location.
### Required continuity and scene anchors
* Keep the chapter as lived scene work, not report-language.
* Track water, food, medicine, hygiene, light, sleep, sound, weapons, vehicles, children, animals, weather, and living-person road pressure.
* Keep Steve present only through signs, jacket, route code, grief, private
### Forbidden / failure points
* No radio proof, no new Steve information, no Avalance/Waverider, no Anya, no Mike or Dustin physically in Part 2.
* Do not use narrator future-summary or tell the reader what the moment will mean later.
* Do not let logistics erase the four central couples.
### Approved contract status
Approved in the Part 2 pre-writing pass after source-merging the old `part2_chapter_logic_map.md` with the newer block contracts. This entry replaces older thinner planning for this chapter.