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+# Character State: ch-03
+
+## Lyra Vance
+Location: The Archive Gardens, Guild of Weavers.
+Physical: Adrenaline-spiked; fingers vibrating from the resonance of the Master Map; soot-streaked face from the peripheral explosion in the Spire.
+Emotional: Electrified by defiance; experiencing the dizzying clarity of someone who has just committed a capital crime.
+Active obligations: Owes herself the truth of Oakhaven’s erasure — UNPAID; must navigate the "reclaimed" ink now staining her hands.
+Open loops: [Lyra/The Guild] The immediate pursuit by the Sentinel Stays after her breach of the inner sanctum — UNRESOLVED.
+Arc: 25% -- She has moved from a desperate apprentice to a fugitive in possession of the world's blueprint.
+
+## Dorian Thorne
+Location: The Archive Gardens, shadow-step behind Lyra.
+Physical: Bleeding from the fingernails (Thread-Burn); breath hitching; shadow-cloak frayed at the edges.
+Emotional: Cynical amusement masking a terrifying realization that his "calculated" intervention has become a permanent bond.
+Active obligations: Owes Lyra a route to the Heart of the First Fae — UNPAID; must stabilize his flickering physical form.
+Open loops: [Dorian/Malakor] The consequence of abandoning his post at the Loom — UNRESOVLED.
+Arc: 15% -- His clinical detachment has shattered; he is now physically and magically tethered to Lyra’s survival.
+
+## Valerius
+Location: The Glass Spire, High Balcony.
+Physical: Shaking with rage; hands gripping the stone until the knuckles go white; eyes tracking the indigo flare of the stolen map.
+Emotional: Humiliated and vengeful; his obsession with "order" has been insulted by an apprentice’s "messy" theft.
+Open loops: [Valerius/The Archivist] Reporting the security failure of the Spire — UNRESOLVED.
+Arc: 10% -- The architect of erasure has found his primary target.
+
+# World State: ch-03
+
+## NPC Memory
+The Guild Sentinels: ALERTED -- They witnessed the "Impossible Stitch" used by Lyra to bypass the pressure plates.
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+The Weaver's Guild: HOSTILE -- Internal alarms have been triggered; the disappearance of the Master Map Fragment is being treated as a "Systemic Severing."
+
+## Active World Events
+The Great Unraveling (Localized): ACTIVE -- The theft of the map fragment has caused the "History of the Western Reach" to physically blur in the Archive's library, rendering those memories inaccessible to the public.
+Thread-Leak: ACTIVE -- Raw magical ink is leaking from the Spire's pedestal, slowly dissolving the stone floor where the map once sat.
+
+## Vital Continuity
+- Lyra has the fragment tucked against her ribs; it pulses with a heat that matches her heartbeat.
+- Dorian’s left cufflink is missing—lost during the scuffle with the shadows in the Spire.
+- The sky over the City of Parchment has turned a bruised violet, a sign of atmospheric "thinning" caused by the map's displacement.