TRANSITIONS_CH62_71.md

decisions/spine/transitions/TRANSITIONS_CH62_71.md

Layer-2 Inter-Chapter Transitions — the Ch 62 to Ch 71 traveled through-line

Story Spine Layer-2 add-on, authored at the RR-72 window as the whole-range arrival and departure pass over the Ch 62 to Ch 71 span. This realizes docs/TRANSITION_TREATMENT.md Layer 2: the connective bridges between chapters — how the protagonist arrives from the previous chapter and departs toward the next — held separate from the chapter bodies because in the 3D build these are their own arrival and departure sequences, not chapter-body prose. It is authored with the whole range in view, since the window's defining movement — the modern world giving way to the four threshold realms and then to the fairy realm, the integrity lock at Ch 65, and the counter-campaign closing while the Architect arc reaches its terminus — is tunable only at range scale. It continues directly from docs/spine/transitions/TRANSITIONS_CH52_61.md (whose final seam is the Ch 61 to Ch 62 Europe-to-Americas hand-off).

What this document is and is not

Governing constraints (bind every seam)

Through-line ledgers (the accumulated sense of travel, tracked at range scale)

The route at a glance

Europe (Ch 61) → the Americas revisit (62) → the Pacific (63) → the underwater sites (64) → [last Earth node] Antarctica Return and the Gathering, the PATH LOCKS (65) → [dimensional thereafter] Atlantis, threshold 1 (66) → Pohljar, threshold 2 (67) → Tiamarath, threshold 3 (68) → Maatherion, threshold 4, the Architect's terminus (69) → [by the World-Tree root] the Changed Fairy Realm (70) → the Realm War, Phase One (71) → [departing toward] the Realm War, Phase Two (72).

Seam entries

Ch 62 to Ch 63 — the Americas to the Pacific (Vimana)

Ch 63 to Ch 64 — the Pacific to the underwater sites (Vimana underwater-navigation)

Ch 64 to Ch 65 — the deep to Antarctica (Vimana), the last Earth node

Ch 65 to Ch 66 — Earth to the first threshold (dimensional), the path locked

Ch 66 to Ch 67 — Atlantis to Pohljar (dimensional)

Ch 67 to Ch 68 — Pohljar to Tiamarath (dimensional)

Ch 68 to Ch 69 — Tiamarath to Maatherion (dimensional)

Ch 69 to Ch 70 — Maatherion to the fairy realm (the World-Tree root transit)

Ch 70 to Ch 71 — the fairy realm, into war (within-realm)

Ch 71 to Ch 72 — Realm War Phase One to Phase Two (within-realm), the window hand-off

Consistency checkpoints (each seam is a state check between two carry-forward blocks)

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