# FULL MODE STATE EXTRACTION — CHAPTER 18 (CANONICAL)

## Character State: ch-18 [CANONICAL]

**Lena Duval**
- Location: The Heart Tree (Siphon Hub Core)
- Physical: Transfigured into bioluminescent sap and silver-veined wood; human substrate dissolved
- Emotional: Transcendent, serene; ego merged with the Hum
- Arc: 100% COMPLETE — Fugitive → Eternal sentinel of the Bend
- Permanent status: YES
- Known secrets CARRIED: Mother's drowning was deliberate swamp orchestration (Ch-02, unresolved)
- Open loops: NONE

**Jax Harlan**
- Location: The Sovereign Veil (Perimeter)
- Physical: Enhanced ocular reflex (silver-green); total immunity to swamp toxins
- Emotional: Absolute devotion; human identity restructured as Bayou Sentinel
- Arc: 100% COMPLETE — Cynical outsider → Apex protector
- Permanent status: YES
- Jax/Lena romance (Ch-08): RESOLVED via spiritual/biological union
- Open loops: NONE

**Aunt Maribelle Duval**
- Location: Subterranean Siphon Hub (immobile)
- Physical: Integrated as filtration organ within root lattice
- Emotional: Absolute peace through functional selflessness
- Arc: 100% COMPLETE — Power antagonist → Redeemed component
- Permanent status: YES
- Open loops: NONE

**Remy LeBlanc**
- Location: Interior Grove / Root Memory Network
- Physical: Biologically suspended; integrated into cypress memory-strands
- Emotional: Contented; archival preservation focus
- Arc: 100% COMPLETE — Gossip → Eternal historian
- Permanent status: YES
- Known secrets CARRIED: Location of 1920s coven ledgers (Ch-05, unresolved)
- Open loops: NONE

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## World State: ch-18 [CANONICAL]

**The Apotheosis:** CONCLUDED — Great Siphon stabilized; Bend achieved equilibrium

**The Great Hum:** AWAKENED — Collective consciousness of all integrated Duvals; perceives world as unified sensory grid

**The Sovereign Veil:** PERMANENT — Sentient fog barrier; lethal to unauthorized incursion

**Faction Status:**
- The Coven: DISSOLVED — Individual wills subsumed into the Hum
- Outsiders (Louisiana): TERRIFIED — Bend viewed as "Lethal Zone"; Veil access denied

**Unresolved Narrative Threads:**
1. Lena's secret knowledge (Ch-02): Mother's drowning sealed in the Hum's consciousness
2. Remy's secret knowledge (Ch-05): Coven ledger location buried in root network

**Human Entry:** NO LONGER PERMITTED — External relations permanently ceased

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**STATUS:** All character arcs at 100% completion. All primary transformation loops closed. Two secrets remain structurally unresolved (by design) within the Hum's collective memory—available for future expansion or epilogue work.