chapters 7,8,9,10 complete and final

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 - **Extremely goal-oriented** — identifies what she wants, sees no reason to wait, moves toward it with uncomfortable directness
 - **Not a damsel** — has her own agenda, skills, and opinions about Phelan's methods
 
+### The Three-Stream Limit
+- Mere can run two simultaneous tasks without losing fidelity in either — reading while holding a conversation, chopping while monitoring a reduction, shelving while cataloguing inventory
+- Three is her hard limit. When a third input demands attention, something gives — usually whatever involves the sharpest object
+- Established example: chopping vegetables + monitoring a simmering reduction + trying to listen to Devod explain an idea = nearly lost a fingertip (Ch07, Book 2)
+- This is a consistent, recurring flaw — not occasional clumsiness. Her processing is exceptional but finite, and she hits the wall cleanly rather than degrading gradually
+
 ### How She Processes People
 - No subtext. She says what she means and assumes others do too.
 - Reads patterns in behavior but not emotional nuance — she can predict what people will *do* without understanding why they *feel* that way