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+# Character State: ch-03
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+## Lyra Vance
+Location: The Silent Library, Inner Vault, Deep Forest Archive
+Physical: Trembling hand; ink-like Fae markings spreading up her collarbone; moderate spiritual exhaustion.
+Emotional: Violated yet desperate; a chilling sense of inevitability regarding her fading humanity.
+Active obligations: owes herself the truth of the village’s disappearance (ch-01) — UNPAID; owes Dorian access to the map's navigation (ch-02) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: [Lyra/The Guild] why the village unraveled after the map was completed (ch-01) — UNRESOLVED; [Lyra/Dorian] the true nature of the "curse" he identified (ch-02) — RESOLVED.
+Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-01—unresolved): knows she finished the map that coincided with Oakhaven's erasure — the Guild; knows her physical form is being overwritten by the world’s ink — High Weaver Malakor.
+Arc: 30% — She has accepted that her condition is terminal without intervention, shifting from seeking status to seeking literal survival.
+Permanent: YES
+
+## Dorian Thorne
+Location: The Silent Library, Inner Vault, Deep Forest Archive
+Physical: Bleeding from the fingernails (Thread-Burn); lunging toward the vault door; pristine attire now disheveled.
+Emotional: Urgently protective; masking his alarm with clinical coldness as the Guild closes in.
+Active obligations: owes Lyra protection from "Correction" squads (ch-02) — UNPAID; owes Lyra a route to the Heart of the First Fae (ch-03) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: [Dorian/The Guild] his unauthorized presence in the Silent Library (ch-02) — UNRESOLVED; [Dorian/Home] the location of his lost origin point (ch-02) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-02—unresolved): knows he is defying High Weaver Malakor by seeking his lost home — The Guild; knows the exact frequency of the Guild's tracking threads — Lyra.
+Arc: 25% — He has transitioned from an observer of Lyra’s "glitch" to a participant in her survival, physically scarring himself to buy her time.
+Permanent: YES
+
+# World State: ch-03
+
+## NPC Memory
+- High Weaver Malakor (The Weaver’s Guild): HOSTILE -- Dispatched "Eraser" squads to the Archive to scrub the anomaly -- The Archive is no longer a sanctuary.
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+- The Weaver’s Guild: AGGRESSIVE -- Moving from passive observation to active "Correction" (erasure) of Lyra and Dorian.
+
+## Active World Events
+- The Erasure of Oakhaven: COMPLETE -- Remains a "Thinning" in the world.
+- The Truce of the Vault: EXPIRED -- Replaced by an active flight from Guild forces.
+- The Resonating Archive: TERMINATED -- The Archive's internal geometry is being forcibly stabilized/suppressed by the incoming Eraser squads.
+- The Inking: ACTIVE -- Lyra’s body is beginning to absorb the surrounding reality as pigment.
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