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Book Two Mainline Fact Ledger

Authority

This ledger separates mainline planning facts from the overlapping Sabine/Corin side novel. The approved two-chapter book state is authoritative only for its pilot run. Everything beyond Chapter 2 remains provisional until approved in a later book-state version.

Approved Pilot Scope

Chapter 1: Two Markers

  • Selka accepts a survey under an independently terminable contract.
  • Selka retains ownership of her maps.
  • Records appear to place the same damaged marker in two incompatible locations.
  • Selka refuses to certify an explanation before controlled field testing.
  • The doubled-marker contradiction remains unresolved at the chapter ending.

Chapter 2: What The Profit Means

  • The bank confirms the million-crown windfall.
  • Corin proposes protected allocations; the allocations are not yet accomplished facts.
  • Cerys recognizes that the proposal could make legal freedom financially possible.
  • Cerys asks whether freedom can coexist with her chosen home, work, and belonging.
  • Cerys is not released in the pilot.

Pilot Exclusions

  • Do not resolve the folded-route anomaly.
  • Do not establish additional financial, contractual, legal, or route facts merely because they appear in legacy planning.
  • Do not introduce the Sabine/Corin game.

Provisional Mainline Scope After Chapter 2

The current folded-route restructure proposes, but has not canonized:

  • Selka's investigation as Book Two's external spine.
  • Cerys's meaningful freedom as the emotional co-spine.
  • Corin learning that money and equipment cannot replace another person's authority.
  • Sabine's later rescue, prompt release, independent alternatives, chosen return, and paid estate work.
  • Short externally observable Sabine/Corin background beats after Sabine is free.
  • The folded-route crisis as the mainline climax.
  • Hallow Street becoming independently owned while Corin becomes a guest rather than landlord.

Material Not Owned By Mainline

The mainline does not own Sabine and Corin's private turns, scores, physical progression, declarations, sealed-envelope events, threshold sequence, or ending. Those belong to the side novel and may enter a mainline book only through a separately reviewed shared-continuity bridge.