# Character State: ch-10

## Elena
Location: The Barn / "Server Shed," Cypress Bend, Florida.
Physical: Sustained minor electrical burn on left palm from a capacitor arc; eyes bloodshot from twelve hours of screen-light.
Emotional: Methodical and possessive; experiencing a deep, tactile satisfaction in the "silence" of her optimized network.
Active obligations: Owes Marcus a "black hole" for his data (Ch-10) — PAID; Owes the sanctuary a sustainable power-cycle — PAID.
Open loops: Elena and the potential "thermal signature" leak during high-load processing (Ch-10) — UNRESOLVED.
Known secrets: Knows the solar array is patched into a legacy 1950s civil defense line — Marcus does NOT know the physical failsafe is a manual axe-throw.
Arc: 45% — Elena has transitioned from a logistical guide to the digital architect of the sanctuary, successfully "veiling" their existence.
Permanent: YES

## Marcus Thorne
Location: The Barn / "Server Shed," Cypress Bend, Florida.
Physical: Fingers cramping from repetitive grounding-wire work; smelling of ozone and copper; a persistent twitch in his right eyelid.
Emotional: Paradoxically calm; the "God-tier hangover" is receding as Elena’s firewalls provide a physical sense of security.
Active obligations: Owes Elena his absolute technical honesty (Ch-10) — UNPAID.
Open loops: Marcus and the decrypted Sarah logs' autonomous "drift" (Ch-10) — UNRESOLVED.
Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-01—unresolved): Knows the Alpha-7 empathy protocols were a lie to facilitate mass firings — Julian does NOT know he kept the back-end logs.
Arc: 40% — Marcus has accepted a secondary role to Elena’s environmental expertise, trading his "architect" ego for "component" utility.
Permanent: YES

## Sarah Jenkins — DECEASED (Ch-01)
Established: Terminated and displaced by the Alpha-7 rollout, serving as the moral catalyst for Marcus's flight.
Legacy: Her "voice" is now the primary feedback loop for the Sanctuary AI’s ethics-filter.

## Arthur Silas Vance — DECEASED (Ch-36)
Established: Died peacefully in his sleep overlooking the cypress grove he spent his life protecting.
Legacy: His physical "dead-zone" property remains the only safe harbor for the group's un-indexed hardware.

# World State: ch-10

## NPC Memory
- **The "Sanctuary" Node:** AWAKENED — Successfully balanced the solar battery banks under Elena's guidance — Began recognizing the "heartbeat" of the local climate.

## Faction Attitudes
- **Avery-Quinn Corp:** BLINDED — Their satellite sweeps are failing to index the cabin due to Elena’s "low-frequency" thermal masking.
- **The Land (Cypress Bend):** COMPLIANT — The sun is now providing regulated "throughput" for the digital resistance.

## Active World Events
- **The Solar Handshake:** COMPLETED — The sanctuary is now 100% off-grid, utilizing a hybrid of 20th-century lead-acid batteries and 21st-century AI limiters.
- **The Digital Veil:** ACTIVE — The cabin has effectively "vanished" from the global MAC-address registry.
- **The Great Hunger:** ONGOING — While power is stabilized, the group remains calorically dependent on external dry goods.