#### Canceled Wording
* “Anya reacts through Steve to the fact that Lexa is alive”, canceled.
* “Steve gives Anya information about Lexa”, canceled.
* Any radio that allows full conversation, GPS, location, or direct coordination before the reunion, canceled.
* Any easy answer sign that replaces Ronance/Raven's sign l
#### Shelby and Toni / Shoni
* Shelby and Toni did not know each other as a couple before DayZero. Their early water journey develops through the church escape, first boat, white house, bandaging, faith, shame, anger and desire.
* Their first kiss occurs in rain at the end of the early Shoni retrospective sequence in08
#### Seth and Summer / Sethmer
* Seth and Summer are already a couple before joining the water unit. Preserve their DayZero losses in the retrospective layer of082: Sandy, Kirsten, Ryan, Marissa and Neil are known dead; they do not remain open rescue possibilities.
* Seth remains verbal, neurotic and funny, learning re
#### Current reading order and preserved event content
*079 establishes the marina from above.080 shows the cautious living approach from the convoy side.081 carries Shoni's independent past;082 continues their intimacy and the separate Seth/Summer loss and animal line, with marked scene/time transitions.083 holds the
### 9.5 Steve's road and later relationships
Layla is removed from this AU and has no entry, route, romance or later survival status. Steve and adult Alexis Castle share a brief, real connection after the Hawkins group reaches the lake camp in Part 4. They discover quickly and together that it does not work as a lasti
### 9.6 Chapters 084–085, Water Line Absorption
* Chapter084 is the full physical meeting of the convoy with Shelby, Toni, Seth, Summer, and Princess.
* Toni begins to be read by Raven and Finn through work with boat, ropes, and tools in Chapter084, and this line becomes active and clear in Chapter085 around the green
### 9.7 Block 077-081
* Eleven, without powers, receives in the current Steve/Hawkins block066–075 and its Part4 approach a clear operational role through spatial sight and reading weight/distance/water/doors/glass/mud. Steve and Anya begin to make room for that reading in decisions.
* Mike and Eleven's line strengthe
### 9.8 Chapter086, Vauseman
* Alex and Piper were previously prison married / unofficially-officially married for them. The ceremony in Chapter086 is a symbolic renewed wedding in front of the convoy, not the first beginning of their marriage.
* Alex and Piper's prison and criminal pasts are revealed to the core in C
### 9.9 Hawkins timeline and distance
* The Steve/Hawkins road and Part4 approach establish that Steve, Anya, and the Hawkins group are not only a few hours behind the convoy, but following a relatively cold Ronance/Raven trail, with signs worn by rain, mud, water, and time.
* The delay is not caused by Steve's lack o
### 9.10 Steve road, current066–075 and the later Part4 approach
* Chapters 66-75 are not a direct chronological continuation after Chapter 65. They are Steve's parallel axis, beginning after his recovery and separation from Clarke/Raven, and explaining retroactively how he reached the radio moment at the end of Chapt
## 10. Canceled or Forbidden Continuity Moves
This section gathers hard no-lines that must not reappear during rebuilding.
* Steve does not give Anya information about Lexa.
* Anya does not react to Lexa through information from Steve.
* No radio moment before the reunion may allow full conversation, GPS, location, o
## Part 1 current internal range
The current Part 1 sequence is Chapters 001-027. Chapter 026, `What Was Chosen`, is the Shell-fall climax. Chapter 027, `The First Night Without Walls`, is a real 5,000–7,000-word planning target for the first night afterward. Chapter 028 opens the next morning at the visitor center. P
## Current Part 1 timeline lock
Day Zero is early summer. The first Nancy / Robin / Lexa meeting occurs around Month 16 after Day Zero. The Shell-present arc unfolds across late fall / early winter of the second apocalypse year and ends after several weeks of pack formation, when Shell falls or becomes impossible to h
## Raven / Clarke / Abby
Raven is like a sister to Clarke long before the apocalypse. Abby took Raven under her wing, and Raven became part of Clarke's chosen-family structure. Abby is a maternal axis for both Clarke and Raven.
During Day Zero, Abby falls, dies and rises as living dead in front of Clarke at the hospi
## Octavia / Scout / Steve rescue sequence
Chapter 012 carries Abby's death and Clarke/Raven's sister line. Octavia's death opens Chapter 013. Scout belonged first to Octavia and remains as living grief after her death. Scout then finds Steve through scent, blood and route logic.
Steve's rescue requires physical expl
## Steve truth and Nancy guilt
Clarke reveals to Nancy and Robin at Shell that Steve survived for a time but that his current fate is unknown. Raven later enters as witness and gives the technical facts of the rescue.
Robin may momentarily blame Nancy from grief, then immediately break and cling to her. Nancy is not
## Raven / Robin Clexa bet
The Part 1 Raven / Robin dynamic around Chapter 021 onward is the Clexa bet / intervention thread, not romance and not a threat to Ronance. Raven and Robin notice Clarke and Lexa's tension, joke, observe and nudge. Alex Vause may later join this dynamic.
## Part 1 world layer lock
Blocks 4-8 must not be written as sealed emotional rooms. Every chapter from 010-026 must carry its local world layer: season, weather, light, water, hygiene, living dead, living people, 2003 technology limits, objects, animals, injuries and body cost.