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 | ~38 | Ch16 | **Monday** | Morning: Phelan visits Leon at chandler's shop rooms, asks him to guild planning room. Second bell (afternoon): guild planning room, 14 Greystone Lane. Bracelet revealed to Leon. Leon/Phelan riff refines Layer 2 (stabilizer weaponized). Mere cracks conspiracy (curse-breaker procedures don't test for nested workings — "Who wrote the procedure?"). Sniff parallel named. **Devod solves Layer 3** — "move the lock" analogy (idea #7). Dual moss use crystallized. Execution order locked: L3→L2→L1. Hyperfocus spiral takes over — chapter ends mid-thought. Reserves ~70-80% entering session, draining from sustained hyperfocus. |
 | ~38–39 | Ch17 | **Monday–Tuesday** | Monday afternoon: hyperfocus spiral continues, bracelet goes hot (focusing matrix past physical limit), crash. ~14 hours unconscious on guild planning room floor. Leon transcribes execution architecture. Mere stays after others leave (hand-holding, blanket-tucking). Compact moves overnight: transfer motion (blocked by guild), qualification inquiry (filed), Calla approached directly (shaken but holding). Carter drops off supplies, sees bracelet. Tuesday morning: Phelan wakes. Thornwell root (Mere's quarter-grain prep). Leon reports Compact intel. Devod arrives with supplies and Carter's bracelet note. Mere arrives with moss preparations — standard complete, altered at 70%. Ledger visits Calla to steady her. Planning: tomorrow (Wednesday) morning bedside observation for resonance data, then Mere completes altered prep, then cure. Reserves ~30%, bracelet recovering (warming toward amber). |
 | ~39 | Ch18 | **Tuesday** (afternoon–evening) | Tuesday afternoon: Phelan rises (~35% reserves, bracelet tired amber, Flaw Sight functional). Walks to Floundry home with Mere. Spots Cass surveilling from café pillar across street. Ned further deteriorated (grey-yellow, patches, tracking delay, curled left hand, approaching laboured breathing). Bracelet-enhanced Flaw Sight — surgical observation: anchor recalibration speed 0.7 (was 0.9), grip tolerance contracted 12%, bond weakness threshold 18%. Reserves dip ~5%. Second note to Ned: "We know what to do. Tomorrow morning." Mere takes data to Thresholds. Ledger in guild hallway — Calla holding, children's names used, inquiry managed, will be at Floundry by seventh bell. Guild planning room: Leon annotating (colour-coded overlays), Jonael with logistics supplies, Devod with food. Mere returns — altered prep completing within hour (Devod to collect by seventh bell). Full team briefing: L3 (Devod credited, moss blinds anchor), L2 (forge-and-redirect), L1 (standard dampening). Roles assigned. Evening: team disperses. Mere walks with Phelan to shack. Enters shack — sees house plans, not poverty. Redesigns ventilation/drainage. Stays. Bracelet shifting closer to amber. |
+| ~40 | Ch19 | **Wednesday** (morning) | Phelan wakes at shack (Mere already gone), reserves 75%, bracelet warm amber. Walks to Floundry home, arrives quarter to seventh bell. Ledger at door (children at Calla's sister). Jonael staged room since sixth bell. Leon at window. Devod by door. Mere at bedside (arrived first, both preparations ready). Phase 1 (L3 anchor drift): ~20 min, reserves 75%→67%. Phase 2 (L2 stabiliser weaponisation): ~15 min sustained forging, reserves 67%→16%. During Phase 2: four Compact hired hands defeated by Jonael/Devod/Ledger downstairs. Phase 3 (L1 dissolution): reserves 16%→2-3%. Curse broken. Ned breathing freely. Phelan crashes — Mere catches him. |
+| ~42 | Ch20 | **Friday** (morning–late morning) | Two days post-cure. Phelan recovers (Mere managed crash — third witnessed). Reserves ~40%, bracelet "deep, tired colour" (between black and amber), Flaw Sight sluggish ("like looking through dirty glass"). Mere left house plans annotation: steel reinforcement not timber for load-bearing wall. Visits Floundry home: Calla different (siege broken), children returning tomorrow (Saturday). Guild healer arranged (twice weekly). Ned upstairs — hearing/throat damaged, left hand curled, but eyes clear (half-beat delay gone). Two written notes: (1) "You kept your word. Thank you." (2) Compact intel — three companies, transaction patterns, vendor scheme roadmap (Book 2 seed). Guild debrief with Ledger at 14 Greystone Lane: 60s completion fee collected (120s net total case). Cassius Rykhard (full name) reassigned to Thorngate (four days north — removed, not punished). Qualification inquiry withdrawn ("administrative correction"). Greenvale evidence filed — "We'll need it." Ledger: "The guild has noticed." Phelan walks home processing the institutional lattice. |
+| ~42–44 | Ch21 | **Friday–Sunday** | Ore delivered to Carter — 8 gift pieces (repayment), rest to sell through Leon/Carter channels (200-400s est. over months). Carter's reaction: craftsman's hyperfocus on master-grade saturated material. Financial reckoning: ~140s liquid, ore income projected, house target 1,300s — trajectory "years, not decades." House plans revision nine going on ten. 25 gold bribe callback (2,500s refused, math doesn't regret it). Leon visits: case debrief over wine, forge-under-fire discussion, brute-force forgery closer to viable. Devod helps with ore logistics (covered storage, transport contacts — idea #2 of 10). Has house ideas (pilings, reclaimed timber — 2 out of 10 good). Carter builds Phelan a tool roll (noticed need, said nothing). **Mere beat:** "The kitchen should face east." Relocates washbasin pipe run. Talks about the house as shared fact. The noise settles. |
+| Months later | Epilogue | **Deep winter** | New rented place on Chandler's Row (guild quarter edge). Mere lives there (established fact). Her books, moss preparations, Sniff's corner. House plans revision 10 on the wall with Mere's annotations integrated into drawings. Mere left Charlette 3 months ago (packed, walked out — Thresholds still Charlette's, fight unresolved). Daily training with Leon (sixth bell, chandler's courtyard). Fire sequence: 12 seconds integrated (up from 8-10). Leon seed: someone asked about Vethani Crypts / Mallory crystal buyer — "People ask." Guild standing shifted — higher-tier case brief delivered to home address. New case: bigger, different classification, better fee. Bracelet full amber. Noise has changed — purposeful, directed. "Something like contentment, if contentment had sharper edges." |
 
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 | Ch16 (Monday) → Ch17 (Monday–Tuesday) | 0–1 day | Ch17: crash Monday afternoon, wake Tuesday morning |
 | Ch17 (Tuesday) → Ch18 (Tuesday) | 0 days | Ch18: same day, Tuesday afternoon through evening |
 | **Ch01 → Ch18 (total)** | **~38–39 days** | ~5+ weeks |
+| Ch18 (Tuesday) → Ch19 (Wednesday) | 1 day | Ch19: next morning, Mere already gone from shack |
+| **Ch01 → Ch19 (total)** | **~39–40 days** | ~5–6 weeks |
+| Ch19 (Wednesday) → Ch20 (Friday) | 2 days | Ch20: "Two days" post-cure, Friday morning |
+| Ch20 (Friday) → Ch21 (Friday–Sunday) | 0–2 days | Ch21: same Friday through Sunday |
+| **Ch01 → Ch21 (total)** | **~42–44 days** | ~6 weeks |
+| Ch21 → Epilogue | Months | Epilogue: deep winter, months after the cure |
 
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@@ -93,8 +103,8 @@ The Ch05 Leon visit is a social call during the two-week notice period, unrelate
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 | Second bell | ~2:00 AM | Late night (migraine) | Ch03 |
 | Fourth bell | ~4:00 PM | Afternoon visit | Ch06 |
-| Sixth bell | ~6:00 AM / PM | Shop open (AM) or close (PM) | Ch01, Ch02, Ch05 |
-| Seventh bell | ~7:00 AM | Shop opening, morning training, cure start time | Ch01, Ch06, Ch18 (planned) |
+| Sixth bell | ~6:00 AM / PM | Shop open (AM) or close (PM), room staging start | Ch01, Ch02, Ch05, Ch19 |
+| Seventh bell | ~7:00 AM | Shop opening, morning training, cure start time | Ch01, Ch06, Ch18 (planned), Ch19 (executed) |
 | Ninth bell | ~9:00 AM / PM | Morning appointment or evening job | Ch04, Ch06 |
 | Half past nine | ~9:30 AM | Mid-morning arrival | Ch02 |
 | Third bell | ~3:00 PM | Afternoon appointment (Calla's return time) | Ch11 |
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 4. Flag any conflicts with existing timeline entries
 5. Resolve or note any Continuity Flags
 
-*Last updated: Ch18 final (2026-03-09)*
+*Last updated: Epilogue final (2026-03-10)*