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+# Character State: ch-03
+
+## Mira
+Location: Chancellor’s Sanctum, Pyre Academy
+Physical: No injuries; residual somatic warmth; fatigue.
+Emotional: Guarded; experiencing intense, confusing physical attraction to Dorian; shaken by the loss of elemental control.
+Active obligations: Owes Dorian a functioning floor plan (Ch03) — PAID.
+Open loops: Mira/Dorian "Binary Star" stability (Ch02) — UNRESOLVED; Mira/Dorian physical feedback loop (Ch03) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Knows she felt a "wild joy" during the sensory bleed — Dorian does not know.
+Arc: 25% — Shifted from seeing Dorian as a purely political obstacle to a biological necessity/danger.
+Permanent: YES (First instance of somatic healing/energy transfer; established a reciprocal mana-grounding connection with Dorian).
+
+## Dorian Solas
+Location: Adjoining quarters, Chancellor’s Sanctum
+Physical: Minor thermal burn on right hand; scorched cuff on right wrist.
+Emotional: Terrified by the breach of his "absolute zero" discipline; struggling with repressed desire.
+Active obligations: Owes Mira administrative cooperation (Ch01) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: Dorian/Mira somatic threshold limits (Ch03) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Realized he finds Mira's chaos "fascinating" — Mira does not know.
+Arc: 30% — Formally acknowledged his loss of total self-control by choosing to keep the scorched mark as a reminder.
+Permanent: YES (Elemental affinity was physically overridden by Mira’s emotions for the first time).
+
+## Kaelen
+Location: Great Hall/Sanctum corridor, Pyre Academy
+Physical: No injuries.
+Emotional: Vigilant and suspicious; sensing the unstable "atmosphere" between the Chancellors.
+Active obligations: Owes Mira a report on student brawls (Ch03) — PAID.
+Open loops: Kaelen/Ministry report on Chancellors (Ch03) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Noticed the intimate tension upon entering the Sanctum — The student body does not know.
+Arc: 05% — Realized the Chancellors are "testing thresholds" that might be dangerous to the school's structure.
+Permanent: NO
+
+## Lyra
+Location: Great Hall/Sanctum corridor, Pyre Academy
+Physical: No injuries.
+Emotional: Professionally detached; focused on Ministry deadlines.
+Active obligations: Owes the Ministry final residency allocations (Ch03) — PAID.
+Open loops: Lyra/Student brawl fallout (Ch03) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: None.
+Arc: 00% — No change.
+Permanent: NO
+
+# World State: ch-03
+
+## NPC Memory
+- The Student Body (Pyre/Spire): VOLATILE — A brawl in the dining hall involving soup and a blizzard — Increased tribalism and fear of the "other" discipline.
+- Ministry Officials (Capital): IMPATIENT — Demanding residency allocations — Preparing to send observers if friction continues.
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+- Crystalline Spire Faculty: ARROGANT/FRAGILE — View the Pyre as a "kiln" and a threat to their meditative precision.
+- Pyre Academy Faculty: REBELLIOUS — View the Spire as "humorless lizards" trying to handcuff their kinetic nature.
+
+## Active World Events
+- The Starfall Drift: Accelerating; the sky remains a "persistent, angry red" over the Volcanic Reach.
+- The Transition Period: One week remains until the full integration of student classes begins.