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### 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 Storybrooke beforeDayZero, early summer, civic offices and shared household meals.
### POV / focus Scene-level focal characters: Regina and Emma. Keep each scene within its focal character's available perceptions and knowledge.
### Required beats and body / logistics, concrete execution Henry's ordinary needs cross a civic argument; Regina sends food to Emma and Emma quietly repairs an everyday household problem. Their private banter carries desire. Henry's map andRoute14 appear as usable objects. Emergency reports interrupt the town's confi
### Emotional engine They already live as a family while avoiding its romantic name.
### Physical cast Emma, Regina and Henry; Killian and Robin Hood only before their approved deaths in043. Main-group bodies are observed from outside only in044, not physically sharing the household.
### Knowledge map, execution boundary Emma/Regina know Storybrooke and their road. In044 they infer only what they can actually observe; no access to private main-group histories or future radio proof.
### Vehicles SwanQueen armored supply vehicle is prepared before departure with seeds, books, practical supplies and weapons; travel, guarded stops and fuel constrain the long observation period.
### 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 Their unspoken relationship and the scale of the emergency.
### Carry-forward and handoff A functioning town and an emotionally entangled household on the brink of collapse.
### Exit point A functioning town and an emotionally entangled household on the brink of collapse.
## Chapter 041, The Day Storybrooke Stopped Pretending
### 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. 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