### Chapter 182, Four People on One Road
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: Beginning-Part 7 joint-entry arc: Root/Shaw's path intersects Lucy/Kate's. All four travel to and arrive at the city togethe
### Chapter 183, The Cost of a Shortcut
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: Proposed continuation of the four-person road/contact pressure. Root/Shaw's risky pragmatism rubs against Lucy/Kate's habits;
### Chapter 184, An Open Gate Has Rules
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: Proposed shared intake of Root, Shaw, Lucy and Kate. The city offers bounded welcome without treating useful skills as immuni
### Chapter 185, Living with the Choice
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: Ensemble absorption of the four newcomers: risky efficiency, investigation, trust and relationships affect real work. Kate/Lu
### Chapter 186, The Young People Already Here
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: Revised ensemble development slot. Catra/Adora have been on the Hawkins route since Part 3 and with the central group
### Chapter 187, Trust Is Daily Work
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: Revised ensemble relationship/community slot, carrying existing young people's history rather than restaging Catra/Adora's road
### Chapter 188, A Share of the Work
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: Revised ensemble youth/animal/defense slot. Existing Catra/Adora may intersect Will, Summer's animal legacy and practical civic
### Chapter 189, Belonging after Arrival
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: Revised ensemble continuity slot: what long-term belonging asks of people who already share the city. Keep the core couples
### Chapter 190, Questions at the Gate
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: Proposed ensemble contact for Veronica/Logan, alone, Part 7. Their sharp observation and trust wounds enter through present ac
### Chapter 191, The Questions That Stay
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: Proposed ensemble follow-through on Veronica/Logan's actual contact and civic trust; small history can surface through choic
### Chapter 192, Who Knows What
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: Ensemble investigation/trust slot after their compact entry, if the preceding working placement is retained. Witnesses, records and c
### Chapter 193, Trust Has Consequences
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: Ensemble consequences of the chosen investigation, maintaining Veronica/Logan's place alongside existing leadership and the f
### Chapter 194, A Family in the Ordinary Hours
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: Revised city-family ensemble slot. Matt/Julie and Grace/daughter/son have been here since the Part 6 bus arrival. Ord
### Chapter 195, The Work of Raising Them
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: Revised established-family ensemble slot. Parenting duties, illness, clothes, sleep, shared care and couple time have real
### Chapter 196, Room That Is Already Home
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: Revised ensemble belonging slot. Established bus-group households participate in the city they joined in Part 6; needs and
### Chapter 197, The City Looks Outward
Planning status: scene contract and mission slot expanded in active Part7 worklist; verify route and month at prose handoff.
Summary: Regina, Sara, Kate Beckett and Imani depart in two counted vehicles for Storybrooke. Emma stays with Henry and the city spine; ordinary dock, fa
### Chapter 198
Summary: Regina, Sara, Kate Beckett and Imani reach functioning Storybrooke. Ruby, Belle, Granny and Zelena keep its civic structure; David and Mary Margaret choose to return to Emma and Henry. The city separately verifies other family routes.
### Chapter 199
Summary: The Storybrooke mission returns in two vehicles; Emma and Henry meet David and Mary Margaret at controlled intake. The wider world connects through finite survivor-community relays, not the old phone network.
### Chapter 200
Summary: Ensemble, grief over Ted, Jonathan, and Lucas's father lands beside living return, not instead of it. Lucas's mother and Dustin's grandmother are alive from the Part 6 return wave and must not be grieved as dead.
### Chapter 201, Preparing the End-of-the-World Wedding
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
Summary: The large public wedding being prepared is Emma/Regina's. Food, place, clothes, objects, music, guests, child