### Required beats and body / logistics, concrete execution
Lexa assesses Finn while Nancy covers the entrance and Raven inspects the truck. They explain that the concealed escape van is too far to reach safely with him. Leave the prepared Steve sign, move Finn with real assistance and drive the noisy heavy truck back
### Physical cast
Lexa, Clarke, Nancy, Robin and Raven, Alex, Piper, Theo, Finn and Rachel; Scout and Beta. Use the smaller contact group in038 before returning to shelter.
### Knowledge map, execution boundary
Core knowledge remains the earlier account that Steve survived the store, not proof of his current survival or location. Signs continue without an answer; no radio payoff, no knowledge of Steve with Mike/Dustin or Anya. Newcomers learn only what is said or witnessed.
### 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.
### 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. The group digests Finchel socially and logistically. The truck is parked far enough away not to expose the shelter and close enough for urgent unloading; Finn's presence as the only man enters through humor, injury, useful ha
### 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.