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-# Character State: ch-09
+# Character State: ch-10
 
 ## Sarah Miller -- DECEASED (Ch09)
 Established: Her physical form succumbed to somatic dissolution and mechanical harmonics as she transitioned into a component of the signal.
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 Legacy: His integration completes the signal's origin arc, leaving no human witnesses behind to interpret the "Great Silence."
 
 ## Mark
-Location: Unknown (Not present in Chapter 09 prose)
-Physical: Unknown
-Emotional: Unknown
-Active obligations: None (Ch09)
-Open loops: None (Ch09)
-Known secrets: None (Ch09)
-Arc: 0% -- Character did not appear or advance in this chapter.
-Permanent: NO
+Location: The Miller Residence cellar (edge of the aperture)
+Physical: Severe auditory hemorrhaging, spiritual exhaustion, vibrational bruising.
+Emotional: Desperate and overwhelmed by the weight of a dying world’s silence.
+Active obligations: None (Ch10)
+Open loops: Mark vs. the Global Silence (Ch10) -- UNRESOLVED
+Known secrets: None
+Arc: 25% -- Mark transitions from an onlooker to the sole remaining witness of the signal's planetary expansion.
+Permanent: YES
 
-# World State: ch-09
+# World State: ch-10
 
 ## NPC Memory
-- The Whispers (The Threshold): ACTIVE -- Achieved Acoustic Gravity, consuming the physical structure of the Miller residence into the aperture.
+- The Whispers (The Threshold): AGGRESSIVE -- Having consumed Thorne and Miller, the entity is now manifesting through Mark to facilitate global transmission.
 
 ## Faction Attitudes
-- Archive Administration: Erasure -- The facility has excised all records of Elias Thorne and Sarah Miller from the timeline.
+- Archive Administration: Non-Existent -- The administrative reality has been overwritten by the frequency; they no longer possess the agency to intervene.
 
 ## Active World Events
-- The Singularity: The Vault door has become a total aperture where Acoustic Logic replaces Newtonian physics; matter is now governed by frequency.
-- Geometric Collapse: The cellar has detached from the terrestrial plane, drifting as an isolated island within a vibrating void.
-- The Silent Broadcast: The signal has reached a state of "pre-echo," preparing for a planetary scale transition into global silence.
+- The Great Silence: The signal has successfully breached the Oakhaven terrestrial anchor and is vibrating through the planetary crust.
+- Geometric Dissolution: The physical laws of the Miller residence have collapsed entirely; the cellar exists as a non-Euclidean platform within the signal.
+- The Final Broadcast: The 14Hz frequency is no longer contained; it is currently broadcasting through the tectonic plates of the North American continent.
 
 ## Rules & Logic
-- Acoustic Gravity: High-amplitude sound (specifically 14Hz) functions as a gravitational well; physical escape is impossible beyond this threshold.
-- Ontological Muting: The signal possesses the capability to cause material objects to cease existing in the physical plane.
-- Skull-to-Skull Communication: Due to increased air density within the aperture, traditional audio is replaced by direct bone-conduction.
+- Harmonic Consumption: Living matter that remains within the aperture without "integrating" suffers rapid cellular decay and internal bleeding.
+- Bone-Conduction Reality: Communication is no longer possible via airwaves; all "speech" is perceived as internal vibrations within the skeletal structure.