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+# Character State: ch-06
+
+## Lena Duval
+Location: Safehouse, Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans.
+Physical: Severe sensory static; hand-tremors; deafened to the supernatural pulse. Nausea exacerbated by the rhythmic vibration of her mother's silver locket against her chest.
+Emotional: Claustrophobic and "cornered." Struggling with the vulnerability of being "blind" to the spirits.
+Active obligations: 
+- Owed to Jax: Explanation of "Phlegethon" (Ch-05) -- UNPAID.
+- Self-preservation: Muffle Maribelle’s psychic intrusion -- UNPAID.
+Open loops: 
+- Navigating the city while magically severed (Ch-05) -- UNRESOLVED.
+- Determining if Maribelle’s voice is a mental fracture or a true breach (Ch-05) -- UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: 
+- CARRIED (Ch-05): Developers target the "Heart of the Bend" for Project Phlegethon.
+- CARRIED (Ch-05): Mother’s locket is vibrating in sync with industrial machinery, not nature.
+Arc: 50% -- Realizes her "Severing" is a frequency shift; she is tuning into the industrial/artificial rather than the organic.
+Permanent: YES
+
+## Jax Harlan
+Location: Safehouse, Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans.
+Physical: Tense; low-grade exhaustion; shoulder bruising from a previous skirmish.
+Emotional: Hyper-vigilant; grim. Feeling the weight of the safehouse compromise.
+Active obligations: 
+- Delivering Lena to the "neutral" contact (Ch-05) -- ACTIVE.
+Open loops: 
+- Identifying the source of the location leak -- ACTIVE.
+Known secrets: 
+- CARRIED (Ch-05): Lena’s tremors subside only when she has physical contact with him/organic matter.
+Arc: 25% -- Fully transitioned from reluctant protector to active investigator of the conspiracy.
+Permanent: YES
+
+# World State: ch-06
+
+## NPC Memory
+- Aunt Maribelle (The Coven): HOSTILE -- Her voice bypassed the Urban Wall to haunt Lena; distance is no longer a deterrent.
+- The "Neutral" Contact (New Orleans): UNMET -- A rumored harbor, but the safehouse’s compromised status makes every contact suspect.
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+- The Duval Coven: Aggressive/Possessive -- Piercing city static to reclaim Lena.
+- Terrebonne Development Corp: Predatory -- Exploiting the "Stagnation" to push Phlegethon forward.
+
+## Active World Events
+- The Urban Wall Failure: The iron and concrete of New Orleans are no longer successfully masking Lena from the Coven's reach.
+- The Leak: The safehouse security is officially breached; they are "sitting ducks."
+- Frequency Shift: The background "noise" of the world is changing from natural/magical to industrial/mechanical.
+
+## Metadata
+- Current Chapter: 06
+- Key Item: Silver Locket (vibrating rhythmically/mechanically).
+- Key Term: "Frequency Shift."
+- Mood: Paranoiac, heavy, industrial, claustrophobic.
+- Voice/Theme: Lena's sensory isolation vs. the encroaching mechanical vibration.