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+# Character State: ch-10
+
+## Lena Duval
+- **Location**: Industrial catwalks, Sector 4, Terrebonne Siphon.
+- **Physical**: Severe lethargy and fever from "Machine-Witch" transition; salt-scabbed palm; hearing muffled by pressure changes.
+- **Emotional**: "Hollowed-out" clarity; resolute but wary of the cost of her new role.
+- **Active Obligations**: Owes Jax Harlan a survival debt (salt-tithe) -- UNPAID.
+- **Open Loops**: Reconciling her machine-magic with the traditionalist Coven -- UNRESOLVED.
+- **Known Secrets**: The Siphon’s true purpose was a "Harmonic Bleed" to harvest spirits for the upper districts -- Jax remains unaware.
+- **Arc Status**: 90% (Guardian). She has merged blood-magic with the machine to stabilize the Bend.
+
+## Jax Harlan
+- **Location**: Manual override catwalks, Sector 4.
+- **Physical**: Lacerations on upper arms; hands shaking from adrenaline and mechanical vibration.
+- **Emotional**: Protective; absolute acceptance of Lena’s power as his primary directive.
+- **Active Obligations**: Guarding Lena during her post-ritual recovery -- ACTIVE.
+- **Open Loops**: Identifying the source of the safehouse intel leak -- UNRESOLVED.
+- **Arc Status**: 70% (Protector). Tactical skepticism has vanished in the face of the supernatural.
+
+# World State: ch-10
+
+## NPC Memory
+- **The Drowned Man**: DISPERSED. The entity dissolved into the brine via harmonic resonance; the physical threat to the machinery has ended.
+- **Aunt Maribelle (Duval Estate)**: BLOCKED. Her spiritual connection via the locket was severed by the 440Hz pulse. She is currently blind to Lena’s location.
+- **Terrebonne Security Teams**: AGGRESSIVE. Convergence on Sector 4 is imminent following telemetry drop-off.
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+- **Terrebonne Development Corp**: HOSTILE. Views Sector 4 infrastructure failure as domestic terrorism.
+- **The Duval Coven**: FRACTURED. Rumors of the "Machine-Witch" have created a schism between traditionalists and progressives.
+
+## Active World Events
+- **The Great Flush**: TERMINATED. Bypass valves are physically fused; the bayou will not be purged.
+- **The Heartbeat**: ACTIVE. The Siphon now emits a low-frequency pulse that stabilizes the local spirit-environment.
+- **The Gear Jam**: PERMANENT. The Siphon is mechanically unsalvageable; it requires total demolition to remove the fused components.
+
+## Metadata
+- **Environment**: Mist-heavy industrial cathedral; scent of ozone and magnolia; rhythmic metal pulse.
+- **Key Conflict**: Escaping the corporate extraction perimeter before security arrival.
+- **Tone**: Exhausted triumph transitioning into tactical urgency.