### Chapter 008, What Love Leaves in a Room
Summary: Lexa learns Ronance by movement, Nancy and Robin learn Lexa through Costia, and the station begins to hold witnesses.
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### Chapter 009, The Body That Could Not Stand Guard
Summary: An attempted robbery outside Shell leaves Lexa with a knife laceration to the outer left thigh. Nancy and Robin divide assistance and perimeter cover. Scout alerts nearby Clarke to sound and blood; Nancy admits her after contact and questions. Treatment cos
### Chapter 010, Before the Name Comes Back
Summary: In a pre-collapse military trauma tent, Clarke treats soldier Lexa under Anya's command, creating body-recognition before romance or Costia.
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### Chapter 011, What the Eyes Remember
Summary: Old-world near-misses place Clarke, Lexa, Costia, Anya, Abby and Raven in working civilian systems before the collapse.
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### Chapter 012, All the Doors That Did Not Open
Summary: Day Zero at the hospital kills Abby in front of Clarke, who stops her mother and reaches Raven, her sister in chosen family.
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### Chapter 013, What the Road Took
Summary: Octavia dies at the opening, Scout becomes living grief, and then Scout finds Steve through scent, blood and rescue logic. Around an hour after Ronance escape the store, the barrier, rear opening, Raven's diversion/tools and an improvised stretcher let Clarke/Raven extract
### Chapter 014, The Things You Learn to Share
Summary: Steve recovers over months with Clarke, Raven and Scout; Raven learns Steve's private world and Steve leaves alive to search. They accompany only part of his Virginia route, then remain for over two months with a moving wounded group; its later collapse leads Cla
### Chapter 015, Four Women and One Dog
Summary: At Shell, Clarke tells Ronance that Steve survived for a time, breaking and reshaping their grief without giving a current answer.
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### Chapter 016, The Woman Clarke Did Not Leave Behind
Summary: Raven enters Shell as witness, gives rescue facts, refuses Nancy's false blame and becomes part of the group.
Planning contract: `10_part1_worklist_logic_and_locked_skeletons.md`, Chapter 016. This index preserves the same current sequence; do not recons
### Chapter 017, What They Bring Back
Summary: Raven, Nancy, Robin and Scout run supplies while Clarke keeps injured Lexa at Shell; hygiene, food, traps and living-person traces enter the station.
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### Chapter 018, What Remains on the Skin
Summary: A rain night uses water for hygiene and memory while Anya becomes missing, Costia remains through body, and Shell starts sounding like a group.
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### Chapter 019, What Begins to Divide
Summary: Shell becomes a shared system through watches, water, food, maps, medical roles, tools, sleeping spaces and threat awareness.
Planning contract: `10_part1_worklist_logic_and_locked_skeletons.md`, Chapter 019. This index preserves the same current sequence; do not recons
### Chapter 020, Betamax
Summary: Beta enters from a human-marked smallholding and becomes a comic, smelly, noisy, costly choice for life beyond efficiency.
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### Chapter 021, Who Works With Whom
Summary: Pairings are tested through work, animals and perimeter pressure; Raven and Robin begin the Clexa bet/intervention thread.
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### Chapter 022, What the Body Already Knows
Summary: Body knowledge rises through training, wounds, Ronance steadiness, Clexa almosts, weather and the growing need for more space.
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### Chapter 023, Little Things That Sound Like Life
Summary: Routine begins to sound like almost-home, with old-world fragments, animals, water limits, watches and the physical need for Blue House.
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### Chapter 024, A House for One Night
Summary: Blue House gives washing, towels, bed, privacy and body relief for one night, while its human traces keep it from becoming safe fantasy. Both animals travel with the women, guards rotate through named handoffs, and injured Lexa is not assigned a standing patrol. They ret
### Chapter 025, Things We Leave So We Don't Get Lost
Summary: Southern line pressure and green candies reopen Steve pain while Clexa share their first full kiss under unresolved danger.
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### Chapter 026, What Was Chosen
Summary: Living people reach Shell, old Robin signs become consequence, and the deliberate Steve sign system is born. Shell remains standing with damage and a breached defense route, unsafe to hold. Lexa chooses the pack over defending her still-standing home and they evacuate.
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### Chapter 027, The First Night Without Walls
Summary: The same escape night becomes a lived aftermath: the five women, Scout and Beta establish a temporary night arrangement at the visitor center, tend existing wounds and divide limited supplies and watches. The loss of the still-standing Shell continues without a s