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 | Ch 5 | Referenced — Drannick (pipe smoker in warrens) refers Phelan to "the Reverend" Carson, workshop off Greywell Lane, three streets southwest. "Fix anything, knows everyone. If Kae talks to anybody, it's the Reverend." "Tell him Drannick sent you." | Pre-introduction referral |
 | Ch 6 | **FINALIZED.** Phelan encounters Carson at the chapel-workshop. Full introduction: Church of the Ahole (shrine, apprentice, catchphrase), overbuilt everything, anti-Phelan noise parenthetical (collects people vs. avoids them). Phelan genuinely likes him. **Kae intel:** Chronic pain confirmed, Elara described, deterioration accelerating, overdue 10-14 days. Won't betray Kae's trust but will talk to him. Confirms Compact men asked same morning. **Carter B-plot:** Identifies Hendrick Voss (two streets north) as the supplier under fabricated-rumour pressure. Church follower, fish fry regular. Volunteers to counter rumours face-to-face with three lost buyers (2-3 weeks). Acknowledges his reach ends at the warrens boundary. **Coffee:** Assault-grade, served in brick-weight cups. | Introduction |
-| Ch 8-9 | Carson reveals Kae's hypothetical dilemmas and his own advice. Puzzle piece — Phelan understands Kae is seeking permission, not acting without conscience. | Investigation |
-| Ch 17 | Carson's network tapped during "The Approach" — "I got a buddy" helps navigate Kae's protectors. | Plot support |
+| Ch 7 | **Fish fry — Carson's puzzle piece.** Phelan attends the Godsday fish fry at the chapel-workshop. ~20 people, food, beer, families. Kae update: Carson saw him two days ago, looking worse. **Reveals Kae's hypothetical dilemmas** ("What would you do if someone offered you something that helped, but it hurt other people?") and his own advice ("Do what's best for you"). Phelan's realisation: Kae was seeking permission, not acting without conscience — a sociopath doesn't ask. Carson's good-faith advice was weaponised by circumstance. Guilt arc seeded but not triggered. Confirms Compact operatives returned with more pointed questions (location tracking, not general inquiry). | Investigation / puzzle piece |
+| Ch 14 | **Brida introduction.** Phelan returns to Carson's workshop the morning after Devod's draining. Delivers the news about Devod. Carson's stillness is "the silence of a large man processing something that didn't fit inside his philosophy without breaking it." Volunteers to accompany Phelan to Brida Voss — "She won't talk to a guild man alone. She knows me." Walks Phelan to the tenement and serves as the buffer that lets Brida open up. Also names a canal-district street contact (a man paid to look the other way during Elara's murder) — gives Phelan enough to dispatch Leon to find him. Carson is the human connective tissue between three pieces of the case in one morning. | Network / connection |
+| Ch 17 | **The Approach — at Brida's.** Already at Brida's tenement when Phelan arrives. Warned Brida about the upcoming hit, brought the studded jacket from Chandler's Row for the safehouse approach, arranged for **Jenet Carterson to feed Sniff** while the household decamps to Millford Street. Stays with Brida until Leon arrives to take the intercept position. The "I got a buddy" network compressed into practical action. | Plot support / network |
 | Post-resolution | Carson learns the truth about Kae through his own network — back channels, not told directly by Phelan or the team. The reader learns he knows, but never sees how he processes it. He just "knows things." | Off-page resolution |
 
 ### Book 3