### Chapter 187
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Catra / Adora, chapter 2. Their road continues until the encounter with the city.
* Locks for later: preserve time, ages, injuries, children, animals, objects, and knowledge according to `canon_ledger.m
### Chapter 188
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Long ensemble chapter. The actual encounter with Catra / Adora, their joining, and the way fire meeting a wall changes the community.
* Locks for later: preserve time, ages, injuries, children, animals,
### Chapter 189
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Long ensemble chapter. Catra / Adora are absorbed into the city, and their dynamics open new pressure against the four core couples and the civil structure.
* Locks for later: preserve time, ages, injur
### Chapter 190
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Veronica / Logan, chapter 1. Ensemble opening in the moment before or at the beginning of the encounter with them, then a return to the beginning of the end from their point of view.
* Locks for later:
### Chapter 191
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Veronica / Logan, chapter 2. Their road continues until the encounter with the city.
* Locks for later: preserve time, ages, injuries, children, animals, objects, and knowledge according to `canon_ledge
### Chapter 192
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Long ensemble chapter. The actual encounter with Veronica / Logan, their joining, and a new mystery opens inside the city.
* Locks for later: preserve time, ages, injuries, children, animals, objects, a
### Chapter 193
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Long ensemble chapter. The city absorbs Veronica / Logan, and the investigation changes trust, relationships, and leadership.
* Locks for later: preserve time, ages, injuries, children, animals, objects
### Chapter 194
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Matt / Julie, chapter 1. Ensemble opening in the moment before or at the beginning of the encounter with them, then a return to the beginning of the end from their point of view.
* Locks for later: pres
### Chapter 195
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Matt / Julie, chapter 2. Their road continues until the encounter with the city.
* Locks for later: preserve time, ages, injuries, children, animals, objects, and knowledge according to `canon_ledger.md
### Chapter 196
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Long ensemble chapter. The actual encounter with Matt / Julie, their joining, and a new softness enters a space that has learned to survive mainly through fracture.
* Locks for later: preserve time, age
### Chapter 197
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Long ensemble chapter. Matt / Julie are absorbed into the city, and the city moves forward through work, families, and external missions, without more hints about the past and without rebuilding the Leg
### Chapter 198
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Ensemble chapter. Clear signs of life from other routes become reality, and the city prepares to receive a wave of families, not just more lone survivors.
* Locks for later: preserve time, ages, injurie
### Chapter 199
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Ensemble chapter. The city receives wider-world traces through relay and survivor-community contact; the old phone network does not return.
* Locks for later: preserve time, ages, injuries, children, an
### Chapter 200
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Ensemble chapter. Grief for Ted, Jonathan, and Lucas’s father lands beside living family continuity. Lucas’s mother and Dustin’s grandmother are alive. Piper’s Cal/Neri closure can land through survivor
### Chapter 201
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Ensemble chapter. Preparations for the end-of-the-world wedding become real, while the city also defines clear principles of life: rescue, community, gates, farm, docks, children, and human heart.
* Loc
### Chapter 202
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: The end-of-the-world wedding, real, emotional, and full, with the community as witness. A moment when the city chooses life out loud.
* Locks for later: preserve time, ages, injuries, children, animals,
### Chapter 203
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Ensemble chapter. The day after the wedding: who calms down, who breaks, and what changed in the city because one person dared to say yes to the future.
* Locks for later: preserve time, ages, injuries,
### Chapter 204
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Ensemble chapter. A major crisis, but not a war: storm, illness, fire, or infrastructure failure. It forces the city to prove strength without turning the story into another battle.
* Locks for later: p
### Chapter 205
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Ensemble chapter. The community response to the crisis proves that the city can stand without one heroic figure saving everyone.
* Locks for later: preserve time, ages, injuries, children, animals, obje
### Chapter 206
* Prose status: not yet written, or not counted in the active word-count file.
* Continuity summary: Ensemble chapter. A large move of building and expansion: opening a new dock, restoring a wing, building a greenhouse, or creating another outpost. Not another battle, but a decision to keep growing.
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