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#### 7.2.2 Until the Virginia Pickup Point Until Nancy and Robin reach the military pickup point in Virginia, there are no route signs for Steve. Canon reason: before his injury, Steve knew the direction, Karen's letter, and the Virginia destination. Therefore there is no need to leave a trail, and they should not th
#### 7.2.3 The Virginia Pickup Point and the Old Signs In Chapter 6, only after the Virginia pickup point is revealed as empty and broken, Robin leaves the first thing for Steve. Even there it does not come from believing he is alive. It is a grief ritual in the place where the only road they had breaks. Robin speaks
#### 7.2.4 Chapters 7 to 16 at the Shell Station As long as Nancy and Robin are at the Shell station, until the discovery moment in Chapter 16, there are no new signs, no drafts, no code, and no active preparation for a sign system. Steve remains in mind, voice, jacket, wrapper, memory, and conversations. Robin may t
#### 7.2.5 Chapters 15 to 17 Continuity Repair, Clarke and Raven's Permitted Knowledge * In Chapter 15, Clarke and Raven join Steve only for part of the way toward Virginia. They do not reach the pickup point with him and do not know what he found or did not find afterward. * The separation occurs before the pickup po
#### 7.2.6 Chapter 16 and After In Chapter 16, Clarke reveals to Nancy and Robin that Steve is alive. From that moment, the language may change, but there is still no new external sign as long as the group is at the Shell station. In Chapters 16 to 26 there is understanding, guilt, conversation, retrospective mapping
#### 7.2.7 What Must Not Be Contradicted * Before Chapter 16, Robin and Nancy believe Steve is dead. * Before the Virginia pickup point, there are no route signs for Steve. * Until Chapter 16, there is no sentence that assumes conscious hope that Steve is alive. * In Chapters 7 to 16 at the station, there is no new no
#### 7.2.8 Steve Route Sign Rule After Chapter 27 From the moment the pack leaves the Shell station in Chapter 27 and knows Steve is alive, the chain of signs is not reserved only for big places. In every meaningful movement, and usually every day or two of travel, Robin, Nancy, and Raven leave Steve a small route sig
### 7.3 Chapter 003 Hawkins Family-Loss Locks These locks exist because Chapter 003 is not only a movement chapter. It is the private-home chapter inside the Ronance / Steve standalone entrance arc. The chapter must contrast three family answers and must not soften them during skeleton, writing, or QA. 1. Nancy recei
### 7.3 Chapters 13-15, Clarke / Raven / Octavia / Steve * Octavia is locked at Raven's Day Zero age, meaning 35 on Day Zero and around 36 years 10 months during the Chapters 13-15 axis in Part 1. * Clarke, Raven, and Octavia were together for months before Octavia's death. Her death is not a functional event that act
### 7.4 Steve Survival Physical Continuity
#### What Remains Canon * In Chapter 4, Nancy and Robin believe Steve is dead. * They do not know he is alive until Chapter 16. * Clarke, Scout, and Raven find Steve alive in Chapter 14. * Steve recovers for months before he leaves to search for Nancy and Robin. * Raven learns Steve and Robin's sign language through o
#### What Must Be Physically Explained in the Baseline Draft * Steve cannot remain visible on the floor of an open store while living dead close in on the place. * There must be a physical barrier: collapsed shelf, service door, metal cabinet, food sacks, back room, or service office separating him from the living dea
#### Forward Canon Rule Every apparent death, future rescue, sign, or late rescue must receive a physical mechanism at first writing: distance, time, barrier, silence, noise, weather, blood, scent, injury, body, and what nearby characters cannot know yet.
### 7.5 Steve, Jacket, Barrier, and Rescue Working canon update for Parts 1-4.
#### Steve Injury and Rescue Continuity * In Chapter 4, Steve is badly injured in the supply store, without a bite. * Nancy and Robin think he is dead because they cannot find a clear pulse amid noise, blood, living dead, and immediate pressure. * Before escaping, they block access to him with a shelf / cabinet / food
#### Steve and Robin's Jacket * The dark jacket is a canon object for Steve and Robin. It becomes theirs on the road, after being found / bought at a thrift store and becoming a shared garment in practice. * During the injury, Steve points Robin to the jacket and signals that it is theirs. * Robin leaves the store wit
## 8. Part 2 Continuity Locks Part 2 locks cover the move out of the Shell station, the Appalachian / western Virginia axis, Vauseman, Theo, Finchel, and the convoy becoming a physical system.
### 8.1 Current Shelter Location Lock, Chapters 34-38 The pack's current shelter after Vauseman and Theo join is in western Virginia, in an Appalachian area near West Virginia. It is not near the coast and not deep in eastern Virginia. Meaning for Chapters 36-38: * A one-day supply convoy toward Ohio / the Ohio-West
### 8.2 Vehicle Continuity Lock, Chapters 36-39 Vehicle continuity in the Finchel block is locked as follows: * From Chapter 28 until the supply mission in Chapter 38, the pack uses the escape / service vehicle from Chapter 27. * In Chapter 36 they drive the Chapter 27 vehicle to the community center, park it hidden
### 8.3 Finchel, Chapters 36-38