# Character State: ch-09

## Liora Voss
**Location:** The Heart of the Loom (The Blind Weave)
**Physical:** Severe frayback; fingers trembling with feedback; sustained by the dual-bound Violet Tether.
**Emotional:** Transcendent resolve; acceptance of the "wild thread" as a stabilizing force rather than a flaw.
**Active obligations:** Binds Thorne via Violet Tether (Ch-08) -- UNPAID
**Open loops:** Confront Elowen on Dirty Circuit sabotage (Ch-08) -- UNRESOLVED; Survive Spindle digestion (Ch-08) -- RESOLVED
**Known secrets:** CARRIED (Ch-08--unresolved): Loom hunts her as architectural blueprint; CARRIED (Ch-08--unresolved): Elowen engineered collapse.
**Arc:** 75% -- Shifted from a philosophy of absolute control to one of harmonic partnership, viewing the "snag" as the anchor.
**Status:** LIVING

## Thorne Quill
**Location:** The Heart of the Loom (The Blind Weave)
**Physical:** Corporeal form flickering; violet light pulsing through veins; acting as the grounding weight for Liora’s resonance.
**Emotional:** Ferociously protective; grounded by the voluntary bond.
**Active obligations:** Guide Liora through Liquefied Reality (Ch-08) -- PAID
**Open loops:** Resist Loom's siren call (Ch-08) -- RESOLVED
**Known secrets:** CARRIED (Ch-08--unresolved): Loom views Liora as prize.
**Arc:** 70% -- Accepted his role as the chaotic ballast necessary to keep Liora from being subsumed by the Loom's perfection.
**Status:** LIVING

## Elowen Shade
**Location:** The Perimeter of the Breach
**Physical:** Intact; watching the Indigo Rot stabilize.
**Emotional:** Frustrated but calculating; observing the unexpected stabilization of the Spindle core.
**Active obligations:** None
**Open loops:** Orchestrate final Spindle collapse (Ch-08) -- UNRESOLVED
**Known secrets:** CARRIED (Ch-08--unresolved): Architected Dirty Circuit sabotage.
**Arc:** 50% -- Her plan for total collapse was halted by the dual-tether, forcing a shift to predatory observation.
**Status:** LIVING

# World State: ch-09

## NPC Memory
- The Stained (Spindle Core): ASTONISHED -- Witnessed the Violet Tether stabilize the Indigo Rot -- Began whispering of a "New Weave" instead of total Unbinding.

## Faction Attitudes
- The Stained: Reverent -- Perceive Liora and Thorne's combined resonance as a holy evolution of the fray.
- Conclave Remnants: Terrified -- View the stabilization as a perversion of traditional binding laws.

## Active World Events
- The Great Stabilization: The total collapse of the Spindle has been arrested; reality is currently suspended in a "harmonic stasis" maintained by the Liora-Thorne bond.
- Indigo Rot: Halted at the core perimeter; no longer actively digesting the Spindle remains but remains extant as a new substrate.

## Critical Physics
- Dual-Resonance: The "Violet Tether" is no longer a leash but a circuit; power flows both ways, making the frayback effect shared and therefore halved in its destructive impact on Liora.