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### Chapter role in Part 2 Block: SwanQueen/Henry standalone entrance arc. Day Zero breaks Storybrooke's denial. Emma responds through street-level protection and instinct; Regina responds through structure, emergency hierarchy, ration rules, safe rooms, and command; Henry's safety changes every argument. Around day ni
### Physical opening To be staged from the previous chapter's exact handoff. The chapter must begin with the physical consequences of Chapter 040 visible in people, vehicles, supplies, children, animals, wounds, signs, and location.
### Physical ending / handoff Around day nine the town's first survival shape is visible, but so is the cost of trying to hold the world outside.
### 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.
### Status Approved chapter contract, ready for later skeleton/prose expansion.
## Chapter 042, The Town That Would Not Let the World In
### 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: SwanQueen/Henry standalone entrance arc. Storybrooke's sealed/defended phase lasts long enough to become a moral trap. Regina's order saves lives and begins hardening; Emma sees the people and consequences at the border; Henry sees more than either woman wants. The town stays standing
### Physical opening To be staged from the previous chapter's exact handoff. The chapter must begin with the physical consequences of Chapter 041 visible in people, vehicles, supplies, children, animals, wounds, signs, and location.
### Physical ending / handoff The town stays standing for roughly half a year, but the protocols that once protected it start becoming the reason leaving may be necessary.
### 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.
### Status Approved chapter contract, ready for later skeleton/prose expansion.
## Chapter 043, The Road That Turns Parenting Into a Profession
### 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: SwanQueen/Henry standalone entrance arc. The town breaks enough that Emma, Regina, and Henry must become a moving family unit. Killian and Robin Hood die in the Storybrooke fall/escape line, not as romantic triangles but as real loss and old-life rupture. Regina takes a photo, key, rou
### Physical opening To be staged from the previous chapter's exact handoff. The chapter must begin with the physical consequences of Chapter 042 visible in people, vehicles, supplies, children, animals, wounds, signs, and location.
### Physical ending / handoff On the road, parenting becomes labor: food, sleep, fear, lies that soothe, truths delayed, exits, and who carries Henry's body when he cannot be brave.
### 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