The RelayAct III — The Fragments
Chapter 17 — Holding Is Not Enough
About 1 min
STUB — to be drafted. POV: Lena · Location: a stranded world (Sera's Discovery beat).
Lena finds a community holding together better than any she's seen — sharing, minding each other's children, refusing to scapegoat the trapped traders — and the gate above them goes dark all the same. The best argument for Sera and the proof she's not enough in one breath. Lena realizes she stopped carrying freight long ago and started carrying contradictions.
Carries: Sera's Discovery beat (a new problem, not a fragment); "carrying contradictions." Withholds: the form that would let holding become adaptation.