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### Children / animals Theo is newborn at the end031, grows across032 and is around nine-to-ten months at the Month18 contact; Alex and Piper are his mothers. In retrospective scenes use his actual age, and before birth do not place him on the road. Henry remains with Emma/Regina until their045 contact; animals enter
### Injuries Preserve the009 left-thigh wound in028 and early road weeks; later ordinary function follows elapsed healing, not a reset in029. Finn's037 leg injury is non-bite, with assisted travel and restricted work in038–039. Thea dies from childbirth complications in031. No new lasting injury is added by these exec
### Couples / relationships Clexa: recognition and fear after the kiss; Ronance: lovers carrying Steve as family, never a triangle; Vauseman: existing messy, intimate marriage before parenthood; SwanQueen: a marriage without the word before contact; Finchel: young warmth and grief. Use only the couples actually presen
### Canon locks Preserve the existing approved chapter purpose and entry sequence. No radio payoff before065; Steve evidence is not current proof. Theo is Alex/Piper's son; Anya and Avalance are absent. SwanQueen have no magic. The convoy name is earned in059.
### Not solved Theo's long-term supply chain and Alex's guardedness.
### Carry-forward and handoff A functioning rota and a concrete shortage list for036, without calling the group a family yet.
### Exit point A functioning rota and a concrete shortage list for036, without calling the group a family yet.
## Chapter 036, What They Heard Before They Saw
### 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 Vauseman absorption, preparing the Finchel block that begins in036. A supply run for Theo becomes the first Finchel contact. About a month after Vauseman enters, Lexa, Nancy, and Raven leave in the Chapter 026 escape vehicle while Clarke, Alex, Piper, Robin, Theo, Scout, and Beta hold the she
### Physical opening AroundMonth19, daylight supply run; retrospective Ohio school scenes begin after the contact sound.
### 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.
### Status Approved chapter contract, ready for later skeleton/prose expansion.
### Time / place / weather AroundMonth19, daylight supply run; retrospective Ohio school scenes begin after the contact sound.
### POV / focus Scene-level focal characters: Nancy, then Rachel for the retrospective transition. Keep each scene within its focal character's available perceptions and knowledge.
### Required beats and body / logistics, concrete execution Lexa, Nancy and Raven leave in the original escape van; Clarke, Robin and the mothers hold shelter with Theo and both animals. Mark the service vehicle, conceal the van and enter the community center. Hear Rachel and Finn, then move into their school/DayZero
### Emotional engine Hearing living music is alarming before it is hopeful.
### Physical cast Present supply team Lexa/Nancy/Raven; Finn and Rachel at the contact point. The shelter group is explicitly left behind. Retrospective Ohio cast: Finn, Rachel, Kurt, Carole, Burt and their actual scene families before respective losses.