### Chapter role in Part 2
Block: Finchel/Vauseman absorption. A supply run for Theo becomes the first Finchel contact. About a month after Vauseman enters, Lexa, Nancy, and Raven leave in the Chapter 027 escape vehicle while Clarke, Alex, Piper, Robin, Theo, Scout, and Beta hold the shelter. They mark a Department of
### Physical opening
To be staged from the previous chapter's exact handoff. The chapter must begin with the physical consequences of Chapter 035 visible in people, vehicles, supplies, children, animals, wounds, signs, and location.
### Physical ending / handoff
The chapter opens Finchel's standalone old-world/Day Zero thread in Ohio through the music room, school barricade, Carole and Burt dying at the door, Kurt's later death, the music-note pin, song notebook, Rachel's fathers' recording, and leaving Ohio without a clean destination.
### 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.
### Chapter role in Part 2
Block: Finchel/Vauseman absorption. Finn and Rachel's year after Ohio proves they are not a cute music insert. They survive as two after Kurt, carry music through notebooks, CDs, and living voice, pass through temporary groups, gather smart barter/life supplies, and find a loaded truck prepar
### Physical opening
To be staged from the previous chapter's exact handoff. The chapter must begin with the physical consequences of Chapter 036 visible in people, vehicles, supplies, children, animals, wounds, signs, and location.
### Physical ending / handoff
At the community center, Finn's leg is hurt by a falling heavy object, not a bite or fight, and Rachel stays with him and the key until Lexa, Nancy, and Raven appear.
### 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.
### Chapter role in Part 2
Block: Finchel/Vauseman absorption. The Finchel contact becomes action. Rachel asks for help; Lexa treats Finn cautiously, Nancy holds the weapon line and reads Rachel, and Raven reads the truck and its contents. The truck contains exactly what Theo and the shelter need, but the Chapter 027 v
### Physical opening
To be staged from the previous chapter's exact handoff. The chapter must begin with the physical consequences of Chapter 037 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