# EXTRACTED STATE: Chapter 15 (POLISHED/FINAL)

## Character State

**Elias Thorne**
- Location: Oakhaven Archive, Sub-Level 3 (Central Core) — DECEASED
- Status: Transformed into digital/spectral signal conduit during Archive collapse
- Arc: 100% COMPLETE — Finalized physical-to-digital transition
- Permanent Status: YES (cannot return)
- Resolved Obligations: Sarah Miller explanation (paid via final data burst)
- Resolved Open Loops: Integration with Archive (became the signal)
- Carried Secrets: Whisper Signal = echo of future human extinction (origin: non-extraterrestrial)

**Sarah Miller**
- Location: Surface Level, Oakhaven Archive Perimeter — SAFE
- Physical: Temporary deafness; minor respiratory distress; severe exhaustion
- Emotional: Traumatized but resolute; grieving with professional detachment
- Arc: 100% COMPLETE — Sole survivor & keeper of Archive's horrific truth
- Permanent Status: YES (primary protagonist moving forward)
- Active Obligations: **UNPAID** — Ensure recorded data survives & reaches beyond Archive
- Unresolved Open Loops: Linguistic virus acceleration in her psyche (Ch-12 origin)
- Carried Secrets: Archive records altered real-time by Curator; now possesses only surviving digital recording of final transmission
- Voice Signature: Empirical skeptic under duress; stammers on audio feedback; clipped speech when stressed

**Mark**
- Location: Security Door Alpha (External Perimeter) — EVACUATING
- Physical: Conscious; mobile; assisting Sarah
- Arc: 30% — Transitioned from catatonic casualty to active escapee
- Permanent Status: NO (minor character; trajectory unclear)
- Known Secrets: None established

**The Curator**
- Status: DECEASED (Ch-14) — Dissipated into data-shards during thermal runaway
- Legacy: His absence triggered Archive failsafes → total facility collapse

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## World State

**Active Events**
- Oakhaven Implosion: Total structural collapse; facility buried under thousands of tons of rock/concrete
- Final Transmission: High-energy Whisper Signal burst broadcast during collapse — potentially far-reaching
- Evacuation: Sarah & Mark reached surface; Archive destruction now complete

**Faction Status**
- Archive Systems: TERMINAL — Self-destructed; all physical/biological data erased
- Survivors: Sarah (data keeper); Mark (escort); both free of facility

**Critical Unresolved Elements**
- Sarah's linguistic virus continues accelerating (unknown endpoint)
- Whisper Signal broadcast scope & reception unknown
- Sarah's obligation to preserve/disseminate data now paramount