### 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 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.
### POV / focus
Scene-level focal characters: Regina, with Emma's perspective in a separate gate scene. Keep each scene within its focal character's available perceptions and knowledge.
### Required beats and body / logistics, concrete execution
Contrast one ration dispute, one border refusal with visible need and a later shared family meal. Emma challenges an exclusion on evidence; Regina confronts finite capacity rather than cartoon villainy. Henry hears a truth they cannot shield him from. The wom
### 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.