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+# Character State: ch-03 (Final)
+
+## Mira
+Location: Chancellor’s Sanctum, Pyre Academy
+Physical: Residual thermal humming in her marrow; eyes bright with unspent kinetic energy; hand steady despite the recent mana-conduit event.
+Emotional: Electrified and deeply unnerved; she has acknowledged that Dorian isn't just an ice mage to be weathered, but a physical anchor she craves. Confused by the "wild joy" she felt during their sensory bleed.
+Active obligations: Completed the joint residency floor plan; owes Dorian a public show of unity for the upcoming Faculty Convocation.
+Open loops: The "Binary Star" feedback loop — the discovery that her fire and his ice create a rare third-state energy when they touch.
+Arc: 30% — Transitioned from "Survival/Resistance" to "Curiosity/Physical Danger." She is now actively seeking reasons to be in his presence to test the limits of their shared somatic threshold.
+Permanent: YES (First somatic grounding event; established a permanent empathic tether to Dorian’s temperature shifts).
+
+## Dorian Solas
+Location: Adjoining quarters, Chancellor’s Sanctum
+Physical: A permanent, faint thermal scar on his right wrist from Mira’s touch; his internal temperature is running 2 degrees higher than his crystalline baseline.
+Emotional: Frustrated by his crumbling "Absolute Zero" discipline; increasingly obsessed with the chaotic variable that Mira represents. He has stopped treating her as a project and started treating her as a revelation.
+Active obligations: Owes Mira the Spire’s administrative archives for student integration; must find a way to explain the "burned cuff" to his staff.
+Open loops: The somatic threshold limit — how long can he maintain physical contact before his core stability collapses?
+Arc: 35% — Shifted from "Civilized Contempt" to "Controlled Obsession." He deliberately chose not to heal the burn mark on his hand as a mnemonic for the "Starfall" she induces in him.
+Permanent: YES (Elemental sovereignty compromised; first instance of allowing another mage to override his cooling protocols).
+
+## Kaelen (Student Proctor)
+Location: Hall of Embers, Pyre Academy
+Physical: Exhausted; smell of ozone on his robes.
+Emotional: Cynical and suspicious; he has seen the look in the Chancellors' eyes and suspects the "merger" is masks for something far more volatile.
+Active obligations: Maintaining the peace between Spire and Pyre students in the common rooms.
+Arc: 10% — Moving from a follower to a silent observer of the Chancellors' personal "drift."
+
+# World State: ch-03 (Final)
+
+## NPC Memory
+- The Student Body: Tense and fractured. The "Soup and Blizzard" riot has become a legendary grievance for both sides.
+- Spire Faculty: Deeply insulted by the "thermal contamination" of their meditation chambers.
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+- Crystalline Spire: Feeling besieged; several masters are threatening to return to the Capital if Dorian doesn't "reclaim" his distance.
+- Pyre Academy: Reveling in the chaos; treating the merger like a long-overdue adrenaline shot.
+
+## Active World Events
+- The Starfall Drift: The red hue of the sky has intensified into a bruised purple, indicating the magical atmospheric pressure is reaching a breaking point.
+- The Transition Period: 6 days remain. The physical walls between academies are literally dissolving as the merge spells take hold.