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 **Purpose:** Quick-reference continuity document for Claude Code. Consult this file at the start of any drafting or revision session to establish context without re-reading all chapter drafts. For detailed revisions or line-level continuity checks, consult the full chapter drafts directly.
 
-**Last updated:** Ch16 final (2026-04-08)
+**Last updated:** Ch17 final (2026-04-09)
 
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 | Ch14 | The Villain Becomes a Victim | Day 12 (Thursday equiv.) | Day 12 |
 | Ch15 | The Wolf | Day 13 (Friday equiv.) | Day 13 |
 | Ch16 | Planning the Impossible | Day 14 (Saturday equiv.) | Day 14 |
+| Ch17 | The Approach | Day 15 (Godsday) | Day 15 |
 
 **Time gap from Book 1:** ~3 months after the epilogue. Deep winter → late winter.
 
@@ -386,19 +387,48 @@ Mere explains casually: "Brennan visited a few days after I was born. He's been
 - Devod's changed demeanor post-draining: quieter, grounded, genius idea without performance. Mere's trust expressed by using his idea without comment.
 - The Mere Misread (Reversal beat): Mere interprets Phelan's hyperfocus stillness as potentially something other than processing. Brief sting, quick recovery. Filed as a pattern to learn across books.
 
+### Ch17: The Approach
+
+**Timeline:** Day 15 (Godsday — third Godsday of the book). Morning through evening. Multiple locations: Millford Street → chandler's courtyard → Brida's tenement → south docks.
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+**Summary:** Team positioning chapter — everyone moves into place for the safehouse operation. Four scenes. Leon briefed on-page for the first time since Ch14. Carson warns Brida. Ledger walks Phelan through safehouse security. Chapter ends with everyone in position, ninth bell two hours away.
+
+**Scene 1 — Millford Street (morning):** Phelan wakes after deep, earned rest. Bracelet at ~90%, amber-red. Devod sitting up on Day 4 of recovery — lucid, present, watching the room with earned confidence. Changed demeanor continues from Ch16: quiet, trusting the plan. Mere at the table with herbal preparations — three compounds, dosing schedule, adjustments mapped for Kae's physiology. Brief domestic beat: bread from Carson's network, Mere's "be careful" directed at the notebook. Phelan registers the "our" in "our things" — evidence the life isn't theoretical. Departs for Leon, Carson, then Ledger.
+
+**Scene 2 — Leon briefing (courtyard):** First on-page Leon since Ch14. Running fire drills alone on Godsday — anger visible in the fire before his mouth catches up. Phelan lays out the three-part plan. Leon's reaction is anger, not guilt — he wants Kae to be a monster he can put down cleanly, and Phelan's framing (weapon vs. builder) makes that impossible. Key exchange: "He put Devod in a bed. He drained people in their *sleep*. And the plan is to *save* him." Phelan explains the crystal rewrite in non-technical terms. Leon accepts the intercept role — "serving someone else's plan" — the word he hates is the right word. Commits with a sharp nod. Phelan gives him Brida's address; Carson already there to introduce him. "Don't die in the safehouse." / "You never plan on it. That's why I mention it." Leon's fire after the conversation: cleaner, tighter, steadier. Anger has a shape now.
+
+**Scene 3 — Brida's tenement:** Carson already there — warned Brida, brought jacket from Chandler's Row, Sniff fed by Jenet. Brida's face: anger at Kae and understanding of how he got there coexisting. **"Boy" terminology:** Phelan's noise notes that everyone calls Kae "boy" despite his age — because he never got past the age where someone should have caught him. **Kae's absence:** Stopped visiting four days ago — same day he drained Devod (Day 11). That night broke something. Spotted twice casing the building from across the street, early morning. "He used to knock." Ledger's intel confirms tonight as the hit — Kae's been checking sight lines and routines. Brida agrees to help: "The wall was worth it if the boy inside is still worth saving." Jacket delivered — Carter's work, armor that doesn't look like armor, won't flag ward checkpoints. Carson stays with Brida until Leon arrives.
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+**Scene 4 — Ledger walk + positioning:** Ledger at guild quarter edge, sightlines down three streets, weight on forward foot. Walk south toward the docks — indirect route, professional habit. **Safehouse security briefing:** Outer ward ring (detection, 12-bell refresh), inner wards (asset-protection, respond to active workings). Supply drops via warded chit (changes every three days, reads like a hall pass). Ledger knows ward layouts, rotation principles, seal layering from firsthand experience — **Pathfinder seed #6.** Phelan's noise: "Field-operator knowledge, earned by someone who spent years walking through doors like these as routine." Ledger describes Phelan's Flaw Sight ability without naming it: "That thing you do — the way you read workings." Window: 2-3 minutes for quiet work before wards notice. Ledger will monitor ward response in real time. Phelan sees his old shack from the safehouse approach — walked past it for over a year without noticing.
+
+**Afternoon/evening montage:** Soundstone confirmations. Leon at Brida's (*I'll be there*). Mere's compounds ready at Millford Street. Carson's network confirms Leon's arrival via tanner's boy through three intermediaries. Phelan and Ledger in position south of dock road. Closing montage: each team member's position and stakes. "Five separate individuals had spent their day arranging themselves into a mechanism designed to save a boy who'd been turned into a weapon." Two hours to ninth bell.
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+**Noise parentheticals:** 7 total. (1) Bracelet/jacket math — 90% + 20% = 7 seconds, "a prayer with a deadline." (2) Devod's changed demeanor — trusts the fourth idea, silence isn't absence. (3) Two kinds of debt — saving Kae changes what's written on the ledger, worse than killing. (4) "Boy" — Kae's not a boy, but everyone calls him one because he never got past that age. (5) Kae saying goodbye — standing across the street, the boy version looking one more time before the weapon version acts. (6) Ledger's field knowledge — locksmith analogy, shadow the size of a building. (7) Irrelevance as camouflage — dangerous things in Drenwick aren't hidden, just not interesting enough to notice.
+
+**Sniff:** Male. At Chandler's Row, fed by Jenet Carterson. Annoyed but fine.
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+**New canon established:**
+- Leon first on-page since Ch14 — anger at save-not-kill plan, accepts intercept role as "serving someone else's plan." Fire improved.
+- Kae stopped visiting Brida four days ago (Day 11 — same day as Devod's draining). Has been casing her building from across the street. Ledger's intel puts the hit as tonight (Day 15).
+- Ledger knows Compact safehouse ward layouts, seal rotations, supply drop procedures, and chit systems from firsthand experience (Pathfinder seed #6). Can read ward states for "this kind of layout."
+- Ledger does not know the name "Flaw Sight" — refers to it as "that thing you do, the way you read workings."
+- Safehouse entry strategy: bracelet's pre-Compact energy reads as ambient noise to post-Compact wards. Flaw Sight is passive (won't trigger inner wards). Crystal manipulation gives a 2-3 minute window before wards register the activity.
+- Jacket worn — armor without looking like armor. Won't flag at ward checkpoints.
+- Operation timing: ninth bell. Supply drop chit window opens at half past eight, holds for 45 minutes.
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 ## 3. Active Character Tracker
 
-| Character | Status at End of Ch16 | Last Seen |
+| Character | Status at End of Ch17 | Last Seen |
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-| Phelan Varrant | **Has the plan and the key.** Bracelet/crystal handshake from Ch9 gives him trusted-process authentication to the crystal's ledger. Three-part operational plan: Leon intercepts Kae at Brida's, Phelan + Ledger infiltrate Compact safehouse, Mere bridges treatment. Bracelet at ~90%. Asleep at Millford Street after days of running on fumes. | Ch16 |
-| Mere Fields | **Herbal treatment ready.** ~80% chronic pain reduction, sustainable, no dependency curve. 20% baseline permanent. Needs access to Kae for physiology-specific dosing. 48+ hours at Devod's bedside — finally asleep against the wall beside the cot. Misread Phelan's hyperfocus as potential withdrawal — recalibrated quickly when he surfaced with the breakthrough. | Ch16 |
-| Leon D'Nardis | **Assigned intercept role.** Not present in Ch16 — last seen Ch14 (soundstone report, street witness found). Plan assigns him to Brida's location to contain Kae when he comes for her. His fire is better than Phelan's for head-on containment. | Ch14 |
-| Devod Fields | **Day 3 post-draining, lucid but weak.** Contributed genius tactical idea from the cot — use Kae's existing mission as the trigger for two simultaneous operations. Changed demeanor: quieter, grounded, idea delivered without performance. Mere used his idea without comment (her trust). Asleep at Millford Street. | Ch16 |
-| Sniff | At Chandler's Row. Not mentioned since Ch12. | Ch12 |
-| Ledger | **Committed to safehouse infiltration.** Arrived at Millford Street with intel: safehouse location (south docks) + Brida as Kae's next target. Witnessed Phelan's full hyperfocus state (eyes open, non-responsive). Committed to breaking into a Compact safehouse with Phelan — the calculation visible but the answer was yes. "I can get you in." Knows Compact safehouse configurations. | Ch16 |
-| Carson Johnsby | **Assigned to warn Brida.** Plan references "Carson for Brida" — his flock, his network. Not present in Ch16 but tasked in the plan. | Ch14 |
+| Phelan Varrant | **In position at south docks.** Bracelet at ~90%, jacket on (Carter's ore studs, ~20% absorption). Waiting with Ledger at warehouse wall with sightline to safehouse. Two hours to ninth bell. Entry strategy clear: bracelet reads as ambient, Flaw Sight passive, 2-3 min window for crystal work. | Ch17 |
+| Mere Fields | **Ready at Millford Street.** Three herbal compounds prepared, dosing schedule mapped for Kae's physiology. Packed and waiting for the call. With Devod. | Ch17 |
+| Leon D'Nardis | **In position at Brida's.** First on-page since Ch14. Angry at save-not-kill plan — wanted Kae to be a monster, accepted that he isn't. Committed to intercept role: "serving someone else's plan." Fire cleaner and steadier after accepting. Carson introduced him to Brida. | Ch17 |
+| Devod Fields | **Day 4 post-draining.** Sitting up, lucid, present. Quiet confidence — watching the plan he contributed to get executed. At Millford Street with Mere. | Ch17 |
+| Sniff | At Chandler's Row. Male. Fed by Jenet Carterson. Annoyed but fine. | Ch17 |
+| Ledger | **In position at south docks with Phelan.** Walked the safehouse approach, briefed ward layout and entry strategy. Knows chit rotation, seal layering, ward states from firsthand experience (Pathfinder seed). Will monitor wards in real time during crystal work. Does not know the name "Flaw Sight." | Ch17 |
+| Carson Johnsby | **Job done — at chapel-workshop if needed.** Warned Brida (full truth), brought jacket from Chandler's Row, introduced Leon. Left them to it after Leon arrived. Network confirmed positions via tanner's boy through three intermediaries. | Ch17 |
 | Carter (Jonael Carterson) | **Delivered studded jacket.** Ore studs (Velken's Drift, ~20% magical absorption) + impact-response leather (ore field bleeds into material, non-Newtonian behavior). Last adjustment after Leon told him about Kae fight. "If you're going to do something stupid, at least wear something I made." | Ch12 |
 | Brida Voss | **NEW.** Hendrick Voss's cousin. Early thirties, wiry frame, tired brown eyes. Sheltered Kae in her ground-floor tenement unit because Elara asked her to. Provided Kae's full backstory: congenital spinal pain, streets before ten, Elara's care, the pendant, deterioration after Elara's disappearance, crystal dependency. Recognised Phelan as "the man who burned my wall." Anger at the damage but cares more about Kae. Reported Elara's disappearance to the Compact — no response. | Ch14 |
 | Cassius Rykhard | **First on-page appearance (voice via soundstone).** Furious that Kae has "gone off mission." Demands operatives find and redirect Kae. Rages about Phelan and "his team." Has "a plan to take care of this -- something more direct." Two field agents in the warrens operating under Compact cover. | Ch08 |
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 | House plans | Revision 10, east-facing kitchen. Question mark on workshop east wall (needs soil samples). Devod's integration concept (structure + drainage) filed for revision 11. | Ch01 |
 | Budget/finances | **UPDATED Ch10.** Retainer increased to 22 silvers/month (Tier Two). Surplus recalculation pending — house timeline drops by months. Both methods still kept. | Ch10 |
 | Fire combat training | **15 seconds** integrated casting (ugly, unstable, but holding). Up from 14 in Ch08. Key change still absorbing through instability. **Training off Day 12** (Phelan told Leon). Leon using Telessi sleeve. | Ch13 |
-| **Draining case (MAIN PLOT)** | **OPERATIONAL PLAN SET.** Bracelet/crystal handshake (Ch9) gives Phelan trusted-process authentication. Three-part plan: (1) Leon intercepts Kae at Brida's when he comes for her, (2) Phelan + Ledger infiltrate Compact safehouse while Kae is out, (3) Mere's herbal bridge ready before crystal stops working. Safehouse identified: south docks. Brida is Kae's next target. Kae fully under Cass/Compact management. Next: Ch17 team positioning and execution. | Ch16 |
+| **Draining case (MAIN PLOT)** | **TEAM IN POSITION.** All five positioned: Leon at Brida's (intercept), Phelan + Ledger at south docks (safehouse infiltration), Mere at Millford Street (herbal bridge). Kae stopped visiting Brida four days ago (Day 11, same day as Devod draining) — casing the building instead. Ledger's intel: tonight is the hit. Ninth bell target. Supply drop chit window opens at 8:30, holds 45 minutes. Next: Ch18 execution (parallel operations). | Ch17 |
 | **Carter supply chain (B-PLOT)** | **RESOLVED.** Leon delivered three alternative suppliers outside Compact channels. Carter testing with small orders. Carson's rumour campaign ongoing (2-3 weeks, started Day 5). Carter mentioned non-standard materials project -- seeds studded jacket. Supply chain rebuilding, now Compact-resistant. | Ch07 |
 | Carter gear comment → jacket delivery | **PAID OFF Ch12.** Carter's Ch02 "professional negligence" comment about Phelan's wool coat seeds the studded jacket. Jacket delivered Ch12: ore studs (~20% magical absorption) + impact-response leather (ore field bleeds into material, non-Newtonian — soft normally, rigid on impact). One system, two effects. Leon told Carter about Kae fight → last adjustment for physical impact. "If you're going to do something stupid, at least wear something I made." | Ch12 |
 | Pathfinder seed #1 | Phelan's noise noted Ledger's network reach — warrens-level contacts, access to internal Compact documents. "How does a guild desk analyst have this?" Filed, not explored. | Ch02 |
 | Pathfinder seed #2 | Ledger's worn folder (predates draining case), personal investment in dead woman connected to Kae, intelligence reach continues to exceed desk analyst scope. | Ch04 |
-| Leon's guilt thread | **CHANNELED INTO LEGWORK Ch14.** Dispatched to find Carson's street contact — found him by evening. Guilt now expressed as operational competence, not self-pity. Corroborating testimony secured. | Ch14 |
+| Leon's guilt thread | **ANGER + ACCEPTANCE Ch17.** First on-page since Ch14. Wanted Kae to be a monster — angry that Phelan's framing makes killing him unjust. Accepted intercept role as "serving someone else's plan." Guilt now channelled into holding a line for someone else's plan — the hardest thing for a freelancer. Fire improved: cleaner, tighter after accepting. | Ch17 |
 | The Misread (Phelan-Mere) | **PATTERN ESTABLISHED.** Ch05: Phelan misread Mere (heard criticism that wasn't there). Ch16: Mere misread Phelan (interpreted hyperfocus stillness as potential withdrawal). Both recalibrated quickly. Neither is better at reading the other than they think. Ongoing relationship pattern across books. | Ch16 |
 | Leon — Telessi projection sleeve | Bought from Harren for 40 silvers. Third era, worn channels, +8-10ft fire range. Fire augmentation tool — jealous of Phelan's ring. | Ch04 |
 | Galden (broker lead) | Leon's pursuit complete. Financial trail: institutional money, Compact-level disbursement channels. Leon couldn't press further without making Galden nervous. Ledger's people taking over the financial side. | Ch07 |
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 | Pathfinder seed #3 | Ledger's methodology questions about Phelan's investigative process go beyond management oversight — he's building a capability file, not just debriefing a case. | Ch05 |
 | Pathfinder seed #4 | Ledger navigates Compact administrative filing systems with trained instinct — walks through stacks like a man walks through his own house. Too specific for professional diligence, earned through years of different work entirely. Phelan files it without exploring. "The pile of things I'd noticed about Ledger that didn't fit the desk-analyst model was getting tall enough to cast a shadow." | Ch14 (NEW) |
 | Pathfinder seed #5 | Ledger knows Compact safehouse configurations — "Standard configuration, outer wards, rotating access seals, supply drops through an intermediary." Fluency automatic, "knowledge worn smooth by use." Committed to infiltrating a Compact safehouse with Phelan using insider knowledge of security patterns, ward layouts, access methods. | Ch16 (NEW) |
-| Carson / Greywell Lane | **GUILT SURFACING Ch14.** "I knew Kae was hurting. I didn't know he was hurting people." Accompanied Phelan to Brida's tenement — key social buffer. Named the street contact, connected Brida as Hendrick's cousin. Fixed Brida's window (overbuilt, typical Carson). Community still bringing him things for Kae. Seeds Ch17 approach. | Ch14 |
-| Devod's orbit | **FUNCTIONAL Ch16.** Day 3 post-draining. Lucid, weak, tires after extended conversation. Contributed genius tactical idea (two simultaneous operations using Kae's existing mission). Changed demeanor: quieter, grounded, doesn't perform or over-explain. Mere used his idea without comment — her trust. Still at Millford Street. Recovery continuing toward Ch21. | Ch16 |
+| Pathfinder seed #6 | Ledger can read ward states for "this kind of layout." Knows seal layering, chit rotation schedules, supply drop procedures. Field-operator knowledge "earned by someone who spent years walking through doors like these as routine." Phelan's noise: "The pile of things I've noticed about Ledger that don't fit his cover story isn't a pile anymore. It's a shadow the size of a building, and I'm standing inside it." | Ch17 (NEW) |
+| Carson / Greywell Lane | **FLOCK TENDED Ch17.** Warned Brida (full truth — "I don't do half-truths"), brought jacket from Chandler's Row, introduced Leon. Network confirmed team positions via tanner's boy. At chapel-workshop if needed. | Ch17 |
+| Devod's orbit | **DAY 4, QUIET CONFIDENCE Ch17.** Sitting up, lucid, present. Watching the plan he contributed get assembled without adding to it. Silence isn't absence — it's trust. At Millford Street with Mere. Recovery continuing toward Ch21. | Ch17 |
 | Devod's "protective non-investigation" | Key insight: if the Compact isn't investigating, someone told them not to. Follow the protection to find the connection. Crystallised the Cass/Thorngate thread in Phelan's noise — compliance officer reassigned to Thorngate, where Cass operates. Geography of institutional suppression pointing at a name. Not proof. | Ch06 (NEW) |
 | Higher-tier guild work | **TIER TWO (Ch10).** Phelan promoted: 22 silvers/month retainer, Archive access, intelligence priority, alias "The Locksmith" formalised in guild records. Complicated reaction — resources welcome, scrutiny not. The alias being documented makes anonymity harder. Ledger's "we believe in you" = pay raise + tighter leash. | Ch10 |
 | Charlette/Thresholds | **MAJOR UPDATE Ch11.** Devod brought Thresholds papers — deed (joint ownership, never transferred), partnership docs, and financial records revealing 4 years of extortion payments (3 silvers/month from Devod to Charlette, ages 12-16). Charlette lied to Mere about buying Devod out. Ultimatum revealed: Charlette threatened to disappear with Mere if Devod fought for anything. Mere reclassified Charlette as "closed account" — emotionally done. Reclassified Devod — model inverted, didn't leave, was forced out. **Shelved for the case** — Mere chose to delay the Thresholds fight (character growth). Three-way tactical collaboration on the exploit moves to Ch16. Papers on the kitchen table at Chandler's Row. | Ch11 |

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 | 12 | Ch14 | **Day 12** (Thursday equiv.) | Morning: Carson's workshop — Devod draining news, Brida Voss named, street contact named. Leon dispatched via soundstone. Midday: Brida's tenement — Kae's full backstory (congenital pain, Elara, pendant, crystal). Afternoon: Compact annex with Ledger — paper trail, double reveal (Cass ordered Elara killed + Elara was Ledger's informant). Evening: Leon confirms street witness. Mission shifts to save Kae. Mere pivots to herbal pain management. |
 | 13 | Ch15 | **Day 13** (Friday equiv.) | Pre-dawn: Phelan wakes at Millford Street. Devod first real consciousness (~2 words). Mid-morning: Brennan Toor arrives via The Cairns network. Vethek Pass story — Devod's Pathfinder past revealed. Aldric Vane contact offered. Afternoon: Phelan begins active bracelet charging (70% → 80% by evening, 90% by morning target). |
 | 14 | Ch16 | **Day 14** (Saturday equiv.) | ~Seventh bell: Phelan wakes, bracelet at 90%. Mere working, Devod sleeping. Noise replays Ch9 Flaw Sight fragments — bracelet/crystal handshake discovered (same makers, authentication exchanged). Phelan enters hyperfocus (non-functional). Mere misreads stillness. Half past eighth bell: Ledger arrives — safehouse location (south docks) + Brida Voss is Kae's next target. Devod contributes genius idea (use Kae's existing mission as the trigger — two simultaneous operations). Mere reports herbal treatment ready (~80% pain reduction). Three-part plan: Leon at Brida's to intercept Kae, Phelan + Ledger infiltrate safehouse, Mere bridges treatment. All three sleep — earned rest after days of running. |
+| 15 | Ch17 | **Day 15** (Godsday) | Morning: Phelan wakes at Millford Street, bracelet at ~90%. Devod Day 4 (lucid, sitting up). Mere's herbal compounds ready. Phelan departs to brief team. Leon at courtyard — fire drills alone, anger in the fire. Save-not-kill plan explained; Leon angry but accepts intercept role. Carson already at Brida's — warned her, brought jacket. Brida: Kae stopped visiting 4 days ago (Day 11 = Devod draining), casing building instead. Ledger's intel: tonight is the hit. Ledger walks Phelan through safehouse wards (outer detection ring, inner asset-protection, warded chit system). Afternoon: soundstone confirmations. Leon arrives at Brida's (Carson introduces). Phelan + Ledger position south of dock road. Ninth bell target — two hours away. |
 
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 - Devod's changed demeanor confirmed: quieter, grounded, genius idea delivered without performance.
 
 **Next (Day 15+):**
-- Ch17: The Approach — team positioning. Carson warns Brida. Leon assigned intercept. Ledger maps safehouse approach. Brida provides intelligence on Kae's patterns.
-- Note: Ledger's safehouse intel and Brida targeting already delivered in Ch16. Ch17 opens with the team in motion, not with intel delivery.
+- Ch18: Into the Fire — two parallel operations. Phelan + Ledger infiltrate safehouse (crystal exploit). Leon intercepts Kae at Brida's (containment). Ninth bell.
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+## Ch17: The Approach — Detailed Timeline
+
+| Time | Bell | Event |
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+| Morning | — | Phelan wakes at Millford Street. Deep rest, no dreams. Bracelet at ~90% (amber-red, dense, saturated). Devod sitting up Day 4 — lucid, present, quiet confidence. Mere at table with herbal preparations (three compounds, dosing schedule). |
+| Mid-morning | — | Phelan departs Millford Street. Route: Leon → Carson/Brida → Ledger. |
+| Mid-morning | — | Leon at chandler's courtyard. Fire drills alone, angry bursts. Phelan briefs three-part plan. Leon angry at save-not-kill — wants Kae to be a monster. Accepts intercept role ("serving someone else's plan"). Phelan gives address; Carson already at Brida's. |
+| Late morning | — | Brida's tenement. Carson already there (warned her, brought jacket from Chandler's Row via Jenet). Brida: Kae stopped coming 4 days ago (Day 11 — same day as Devod draining). Spotted casing the building twice. Ledger's intel: tonight. Jacket delivered — Carter's ore studs, armor without looking like armor. |
+| Midday | — | Ledger at guild quarter edge. Walk south toward docks. Safehouse security briefing: outer ward ring (12-bell refresh), inner wards (asset-protection), supply drops via warded chit (changes every 3 days, 45-min window). Ledger can read ward states. Entry strategy: bracelet reads as ambient noise, Flaw Sight passive, 2-3 min window for crystal work. |
+| Afternoon | — | Soundstone confirmations. Leon: *I'll be there.* Mere: compounds ready at Millford Street. |
+| Late afternoon | — | Carson confirms Leon's arrival at Brida's via tanner's boy (three intermediaries). Carson departs to chapel-workshop. |
+| Evening | — | Phelan + Ledger in position south of dock road, warehouse wall. Sightline to safehouse. Two hours to ninth bell. |
+| ~7:00 PM | Seventh bell | Fading light. City going about Godsday evening. |
+| ~8:30 PM | Half past eighth bell | Supply drop chit window opens. Chit holds for 45 minutes. |
+| ~9:00 PM | Ninth bell | **Target time** — Kae expected at Brida's. Simultaneous operations begin. |
+
+**Key details:**
+- Kae's last visit to Brida: Day 11 (same day he drained Devod). Connection intentional — that night broke something in him.
+- Ledger does not know the name "Flaw Sight" — calls it "that thing you do, the way you read workings."
+- Pathfinder seed #6: Ledger's ward knowledge is field-operator level, not desk-analyst. Phelan's noise: shadow the size of a building.
+- Sniff: male, at Chandler's Row, fed by Jenet Carterson.
+
+**Next (Day 15 evening+):**
+- Ch18: Into the Fire — ninth bell. Two parallel operations: safehouse infiltration (crystal exploit) + Kae intercept at Brida's (Leon containment).
 
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