# The Good Book: the twelve-volume series

An adult dark fantasy and dark comedy epic, moving through a biblical spine and an expanding world of religious testimony. The novels and their parallel Codex editions tell the same events. The Codex supplies the denser explanations, source differences, and historical context.

This is the complete first outline of the series, not a claim that every scripture has been adapted or that these proposed scenes are already approved prose. Historical traditions, the author’s cosmology, and fictional testimony remain distinguishable.

## 1. Before the Word

Before anyone can call a world good, someone has to live in it. Mother and FirstFlame face the difficulty of making company that can disagree with them. Their children inherit an unfinished creation, unequal knowledge, and the temptation to mistake making a thing for owning it.

**The central conflict:** Can creation become a relationship when its creators could instead demand obedience?

**Chapters**

1. **Before Anyone Asked** — The first unanswered invitation becomes a limit Mother elects to keep
2. **The First Warm Thing** — Warmth becomes inhabitable while the withheld blaze remains a responsibility
3. **The Space Between Yes and Yes** — Their first negotiated difference produces a place neither controls alone
4. **An Inventory of Nearly Everything** — The first archive preserves a disputed name instead of correcting its bearer
5. **The Child Who Would Not Shine** — Creation acquires a vacant post and a child whose future remains undecided
6. **Which Morning** — Appointments become possible without erasing incompatible ages
7. **Bread for Beings Without Mouths** — Creation's abundance becomes uneven, revisable, and answerable to recipients
8. **The Empty Place at the Count** — Loss enters the archive as an event that counting cannot reverse
9. **The Office of Keeping Things Good** — A protective institution survives only after surrendering its unlimited mandate
10. **Three Shadows and a Name** — A false identity claim fails without denying that one source may appear differently
11. **The Door That Opens Outward** — The first departure leaves an actual absence and a relationship that must travel
12. **The Word Was Not a Receipt** — Distinct beings enter history carrying permission to answer and responsibility to act
13. **Lilith Asks Who Is Speaking** — Lilith becomes an active recipient who preserves her own standing while creation remains temporally earlier

## 2. The Garden and the Refusal

A garden offers food, safety, and an answer to every question except who agreed to the arrangement. Lilith refuses an assigned place. Adam and Eve confront knowledge, dependence, and the cost of leaving. Beyond the gates, the first families discover that suffering does not automatically make people kinder.

**The central conflict:** What belongs to a person when shelter, identity, and obedience have been bundled into one contract?

**Chapters**

1. **Two Accounts of the Soil** — The Garden's archive begins with visible disagreement rather than a forged synthesis
2. **Lilith Declines the Arrangement** — An absent woman becomes a contested memory others will try to author
3. **Adam Names What Moves** — Naming becomes a fallible practice rather than a universal property deed
4. **A Person Across the Table** — The household's apparent harmony becomes a negotiation between persons
5. **The Question with Teeth** — The decision to seek knowledge becomes hers rather than the serpent's command
6. **What the Mouth Knows** — Knowledge enters the relationship before either has agreed how to bear it
7. **Where Are You Hiding** — The first shared crisis fractures trust before any formal sentence
8. **The Terms Nobody Negotiated** — Future interpreters inherit a record that cannot honestly make every suffering an obligation
9. **The Gate and the Ration** — Outside the Garden, divided food sustains an injured household without restoring its safety
10. **The Offering Nobody Explains** — Abel's death makes rivalry irreversible and leaves a survivor who cannot outsource responsibility
11. **A Mark Is Not an Acquittal** — Cain lives beyond the killing without being cleared of it
12. **The Names After Abel** — First families inherit a memory of refusal, work, and murder rather than a clean origin
13. **The Shelter Lilith Builds** — Lilith gains neighbours and material obligations beyond Adam's household; her refusal becomes a durable alternative

## 3. The Waters and the Scattering

Knowledge arrives with patrons attached. Enoch enters a dispute whose witnesses do not share a clock. Flood survivors preserve more than life: they preserve evidence, guilt, and the habits that made the catastrophe possible. A great building project promises reunion and creates a new argument over whose language counts.

**The central conflict:** Who gets to call a disaster a fresh start when its survivors still remember the cost?

**Chapters**

1. **The Teachers Arrive** — A useful craft enters the community alongside a public dispute over its teachers
2. **Iron for the Harvest** — A practical benefit survives while the smith incurs a dangerous debt
3. **The Mouths of the Great** — The settlement loses its comforting forecast and gains evidence for collective complaint
4. **Enoch Carries the Complaint** — Enoch becomes a witness whom neither side can comfortably claim
5. **A Tour Without a Map** — The archive gains a navigable testimony that admits what Enoch could not measure
6. **The Sentence Reaches Home Late** — Those affected can name the warning's lateness instead of being blamed for not complying
7. **An Ark Is a Selection** — The ark becomes both a refuge and evidence of unavoidable exclusions
8. **The Door from the Other Side** — A second survival memory persists outside the ark family's account
9. **The Bird Does Not Explain** — The household returns to land cautiously rather than declaring the world repaired
10. **The Vineyard After the Promise** — The household preserves a fracture beside the covenant and cannot make prejudice a factual inheritance
11. **The Tower's Common Language** — Cooperation exposes its coercive language policy before the project loses cohesion
12. **What the Roads Carry** — Scattered peoples enter new homelands with distinct memories and a future need for translation
13. **The People the Ark Did Not Name** — A scattered community survives owing Lilith no perpetual allegiance; the first refuge is irretrievably lost

## 4. The Houses of Covenant

The promise of a future passes through tents, wombs, wells, bargains, and graves. Abraham's household grows into competing histories told by people with unequal power. Hagar and Sarah have different reasons to fear the same promise. Joseph eventually learns that feeding a nation can save his family while building the machinery that will later confine it.

**The central conflict:** Who pays for a family's promised destiny?

**Chapters**

1. **Leave What Can Find You** — A migrant household begins carrying a covenant it must repeatedly interpret
2. **The Price of Calling Her Sister** — The household leaves safer materially but less able to call its conduct innocent
3. **The Well Beyond the Tent** — Hagar's account becomes an independent line of memory that the household cannot own
4. **Laughter at the Door** — The promise reaches the household bearing Sarah's doubt rather than erasing it
5. **How Many Would Be Enough** — The record preserves a challenge to collective punishment from within the covenant relationship
6. **The Door in Sodom** — Escape leaves a fractured family whose injuries cannot be hidden by the rescue account
7. **Water for the Child** — An independent household survives beyond Abraham's control
8. **The Knife and the Answer** — The interrupted sacrifice leaves a father-son relationship that must answer for what nearly happened
9. **A Grave Bought in Public** — The household's first secured place is a grave rather than the promised kingdom
10. **Rebekah Answers for Herself** — The next household begins with a departure attributable to Rebekah's decision
11. **The Bowl and the Blessing** — A meal becomes a disputed transfer that poisons the brothers' future
12. **The Ladder on Borrowed Ground** — Jacob carries a sacred encounter that does not clear his earlier deceit
13. **Wages in the Household** — The household grows through rival loyalties that no patriarch fully directs
14. **The Name after Wrestling** — Reunion interrupts vengeance but does not erase the brothers' separate futures
15. **The Brother in the Pit** — Family betrayal sends Joseph into a different system of vulnerability and power
16. **The Granary and the Throne** — The family survives in Egypt inside a strengthened state that later rulers can exploit
17. **A Promise for the Unchosen** — A fragile aid route survives outside the covenant households and later offers an alternative to state dependence

## 5. The Bondage and the Liberation

A river, a basket, and a fugitive begin a liberation that will outgrow all three. Leaving Egypt ends one form of bondage and exposes the difficulty of living together without its machinery. The wilderness becomes a place of food queues, sanctuary disputes, failed leadership, and arguments over the terms of freedom.

**The central conflict:** Can a movement against coercion recognize coercion in its own rules?

**Chapters**

1. **The Midwives' Answer** — A continuity of ordinary care survives before any public liberator arrives
2. **The Basket Changes Houses** — The child's survival joins households whose power and loyalties remain unequal
3. **The Fire with an Assignment** — Moses returns with a task, a partner, and doubts that do not vanish at departure
4. **Bricks without the Straw** — The movement must answer to worsened working conditions instead of treating resistance as instant relief
5. **The Contest over Signs** — The dispute spreads beyond elite performance into households losing water, food, and trust
6. **The Night No House Forgets** — Liberation carries an adjacent grief that its triumphal telling cannot erase
7. **The Song on the Far Bank** — A public memory of liberation forms with women's leadership visible inside it
8. **Daily Bread Does Not Store Well** — Provision becomes a contested daily practice rather than a permanent miracle exemption
9. **One Judge Is a Queue** — Judgement gains local access while exposing the need to review delegated authority
10. **The Mountain and the Case** — Freedom's founding law acquires an unresolved case that later interpreters must face
11. **The People Who Make the Sanctuary** — The sanctuary becomes a made and maintained place whose workers retain names
12. **The Calf and the Missing Leader** — The institution survives a rupture only by carrying evidence of leadership failure
13. **Outside until Evening** — The community must distinguish bodily condition, ritual status, and moral blame in a lived dispute
14. **The Census and the Dissent** — The wilderness generation becomes more than an army's failed itinerary
15. **The Daughters Bring a Case** — A named exception changes legal precedent while later conditions reveal its remaining limits
16. **The Mountain Moses Cannot Cross** — A successor generation approaches the land with unfinished duties rather than a leader's guaranteed ending
17. **The Stranger at Lilith's Fire** — A mixed refuge preserves lives and testimony outside the victorious community's membership system

## 6. The Land and the Crowns

The land is already inhabited. Conquest accounts, local memories, marriage bargains, and rescue stories collide before the demand for a king turns them into a national story. Ruth seeks a future in the margins. Saul and David discover what a crown can license; Solomon builds a magnificent answer to questions he cannot settle.

**The central conflict:** When a people wants safety badly enough to crown someone, what powers have they actually granted?

**Chapters**

1. **Rahab Bargains for a Household** — An outsider's negotiated rescue complicates the claim that the city's people form one undifferentiated enemy
2. **Carrying Stones across Water** — A national monument carries a child's question into later retelling
3. **The Walls and the Neighbours** — The conquest begins with irreducible evidence of those whose city was lost
4. **The Lot Falls** — A victory explanation acquires a documented boundary dispute over accountability
5. **The Treaty with Worn Shoes** — A deceptive survival treaty creates lasting service obligations and a contested debt
6. **Land on the Ledger** — The allotment archive exposes unresolved coexistence beneath territorial claims
7. **The Farewell at Shechem** — A departing leader leaves a compact whose later breaches can be named concretely
8. **Deborah's Two Accounts** — Public memory cannot entirely remove Deborah and Jael from the victory it claims
9. **The Snare after Gideon** — A rescuer's monument becomes evidence that success can cultivate the next dependency
10. **The Bramble Offers Shade** — The reign begins under a public warning its supporters cannot claim never to have heard
11. **The Daughter Hears the Vow** — The vow's cost belongs to an identified daughter rather than a father's heroic résumé
12. **The Strong Man's Audience** — Exceptional strength ends with an aftermath that cannot be reduced to the performer's legend
13. **The Message Made from a Body** — Civil war loses its claim to have repaired the violation that initiated its summons
14. **Ruth at the Edge of the Field** — A foreign widow enters the lineage while her practical agency remains visible
15. **Hannah's Child and the People's King** — Monarchy begins with a warning that later rulers cannot call an unforeseen objection
16. **Saul Counts What Obedience Costs** — Royal authority fractures from prophetic endorsement without simply disappearing
17. **David Refuses the Convenient Killing** — David gains a model of restraint that his later reign will be judged against
18. **The City and the Ark** — The city acquires a religious centre that is also an argument over who owns public meaning
19. **Bathsheba Does Not Disappear** — David's reign carries an injury that confession alone cannot repay
20. **Tamar's Unanswered Petition** — The succession crisis exposes a household that can wage war but cannot answer its harmed member
21. **The Judgement Everyone Repeats** — Royal wisdom gains a public test that later administrative conduct must also satisfy
22. **The Temple's Unpaid Ledger** — The kingdom's splendour reaches completion carrying the costs that will help divide it
23. **No Crown over the Refuge** — Families evade conscription, but Lilith loses a defensible home and the political patronage that could rebuild it

## 7. The Kingdoms and the Exile

The kingdom breaks along the lines its monuments concealed. Prophets, debtors, courtiers, and displaced families argue over what is happening while empires collect payment. When the sanctuary falls, grief becomes a struggle over memory: whether to confess, accuse, endure, or refuse the explanations offered by survivors with authority.

**The central conflict:** How can people answer for their own failures without accepting every conqueror's explanation of their suffering?

**Chapters**

1. **The Heavier Yoke** — The kingdom divides at the point where royal image defeats practical hearing
2. **The Widow's Last Meal** — Survival binds two vulnerable households without making hunger a trivial test
3. **Naboth's Field** — The palace acquires land alongside evidence that its acquisition was an abuse
4. **Elisha and the Debtor's Oil** — A household escapes seizure through collective practical work rather than a lecture on patience
5. **Amos at the Market** — A prophetic accusation becomes a visible dispute over who profits from ordinary commerce
6. **Whose Marriage Becomes a Nation** — The prophecy remains forceful while its human subject gains a claim the metaphor cannot consume
7. **Isaiah's Sign in a Besieged City** — The city receives a hope that later readers must distinguish from its first political circumstance
8. **Micah's Complaint at the Boundary** — Justice becomes an argument about fields and homes rather than the excellence of ceremonial offerings
9. **Nineveh in Two Registers** — The archive gives victims room to seek judgement while withholding a monopoly on compassion
10. **The Watch Post and the Question** — Faithful testimony includes an unresolved challenge to the means of judgement
11. **Josiah Finds the Book** — Renewal acquires both a textual centre and a debate over the power used in its name
12. **Jeremiah Buys a Future** — An archive of future obligation survives the collapse of immediate possession
13. **The Last Stores of Jerusalem** — The city's fall enters the series through exhausted households as well as royal chronology
14. **Lament Refuses the Explanation** — The displaced acquire a language that can address loss without finishing its meaning
15. **Edom at the Closed Road** — Exile's geography acquires a remembered betrayal that later repair must address specifically
16. **Ezekiel beside the Foreign River** — Hope travels beyond the lost sanctuary without pretending displacement never happened
17. **Job Will Not Sign the Confession** — The wisdom archive preserves a harmed person's refusal to validate a convenient explanation
18. **The Song Kept beside the Questions** — The portable library retains reasons to live as well as instructions for survival
19. **The Names Lilith Cannot Carry Alone** — Lilith relinquishes exclusive access while a dispersed memory network outlives the loss of any one sanctuary

## 8. The Return and the Hidden Years

Return does not mean everyone comes home to the same place. Builders, displaced spouses, court survivors, healers, and insurgents attempt different forms of continuity. Esther, Judith, and Tobit belong to different kinds of telling, and their differences remain visible. Resistance hardens into institutions as new empires arrive.

**The central conflict:** Who is allowed to belong to a restored community, and who disappears from the story of its restoration?

**Chapters**

1. **The Permission to Return** — Return begins as a partial migration rather than the restoration of every exile
2. **The Foundation and the Old Voices** — The rebuilt centre carries visible continuity without pretending to reproduce the lost building
3. **The Wall and the Debt** — Defence acquires an obligation to the people it claims to defend
4. **The Household Outside the Assembly** — The return narrative retains the people expelled by its account of belonging
5. **Malachi at the Offering Table** — The restored cult is measured against ordinary conduct rather than its successful reopening
6. **Esther Learns the Palace's Clock** — A concealed identity becomes an instrument of intervention rather than a private shelter
7. **Mordecai Cannot Unsigned the Order** — Deliverance enters communal memory alongside unresolved questions about retaliation and imperial procedure
8. **Tobit's Unpaid Burial** — A received diaspora tale makes piety answerable to those sharing its material risks
9. **Sarah Names the Fear** — The healing tale ends with a household formed through shared vulnerability rather than a cursed-woman label
10. **Judith Challenges the Deadline** — The community's future shifts from passive countdown to a woman's accountable intervention
11. **The Head and the Song** — The tale's deliverer remains distinct from the institution her act preserved
12. **Ben Sira's Classroom** — A wisdom tradition enters the plot through contested education rather than unquestioned maxims
13. **Wisdom Faces the Ruler** — A transmitted teaching becomes grounds to contest official self-justification
14. **Resistance on the Day of Rest** — Resistance develops a precedent that will later need limits of its own
15. **The Lamps after the Siege** — Rededication establishes a living practice of remembrance rather than an untouched past
16. **What the Martyr's Family Owes** — The community can remember courage without conscripting every vulnerable person into the same death
17. **Daniel's Later Readers** — Apocalyptic expectation gains a disciplined reader who can act without claiming a final calendar
18. **The Hidden Years Are Inhabited** — The Gospel world opens as a populated network of schools, households, sanctuaries, and hopes
19. **The Page They Call a Monster** — The archive keeps its history of vilification and gains a witness it can no longer describe only from outside

## 9. The Word in Flesh

Into a landscape already full of saviours, creditors, priests, soldiers, and exhausted families comes a life that refuses to stay in the category assigned to it. Teaching and healing change daily obligations before they provoke public crisis. The execution leaves actual wounds. What follows reaches the reader through witnesses whose differences matter.

**The central conflict:** What does good news require from the living when it offers them no permission to forget the dead?

**Chapters**

1. **Mary Receives an Impossible Future** — An incarnation story begins with a woman's response rather than an abstraction acquiring a body
2. **Two Roads to a Birth** — The reader enters the infancy traditions with visible witness boundaries and no fabricated historical certainty
3. **John by the River** — The river becomes a place where ethical demands precede endorsement of a coming figure
4. **The Offers in the Wilderness** — The ministry begins with limits its later supporters will be tempted to bypass
5. **The People Who Leave Work** — Discipleship gains a material account of care beyond the named followers
6. **The Teaching Meets a Debt** — The sermon becomes a changed relationship with remaining costs, not merely admired language
7. **The Crowd and the Interrupted Journey** — One interrupted journey leaves two households changed without ranking their claims by status
8. **Water across the Boundary** — A marginal encounter becomes a community's independent investigation
9. **Who Is Welcome at the Table** — The household loses prestige with some neighbours and gains an altered practice of belonging
10. **The Story That Would Not Behave** — A familiar story becomes an inconvenient demand the listener can no longer merely quote
11. **Enough to Feed and Not to Rule** — The crowd is fed and the movement acquires a dispute over what the gift authorizes
12. **Peter Names What He Cannot Command** — The disciple gains a name for the relationship without gaining authority over its course
13. **Martha Meets the Delay** — Lazarus's return intensifies both attachment and opposition while the family keeps its memory of grief
14. **The City Hears the Arrival** — The public confrontation acquires ordinary witnesses whose needs exceed the spectacle
15. **The Last Table Is Still a Table** — A repeated future rite begins in a particular household with betrayal and care still unresolved
16. **The Garden after the Supper** — The arrest proceeds with fear, abandonment, and deliberate limits on retaliation visible
17. **The Hearing and the Courtyard** — A future witness begins with a failure he cannot honestly edit out
18. **The Execution Has Witnesses** — The execution leaves bereaved people, implicated institutions, and an injury no later claim can render unreal
19. **Mary Finds the Account Unfinished** — Resurrection testimony enters circulation through a witness who must still be heard
20. **Breakfast after the End** — The companions leave with responsibility and disagreement instead of a fully installed religion
21. **Lilith Does Not Speak for the Women** — The women retain independent accounts and the witness network gains protection without a replacement narrator

## 10. The Witnesses and the Empires

The story continues in kitchens, prisons, workshops, argument, and post. Acts and the letters become events happening to particular people rather than an uninterrupted speech from above. A collection can keep a distant household alive; a sentence can also protect a hierarchy. The recipients get to answer back.

**The central conflict:** How do communities preserve a witness without granting every interpreter ownership of it?

**Chapters**

1. **The Languages in the Street** — The movement begins its public life through translation that reaches distinct listeners
2. **The Common Purse and the Fear** — Common goods acquire a transparency practice and an unresolved warning about coercive holiness
3. **The Widows Count Themselves** — New service roles emerge because overlooked recipients name the failure
4. **The Reader on the Road** — A traveller carries the witness beyond the messenger's ongoing supervision
5. **The Man the Household Fears** — A transformed adversary enters relation without an entitlement to immediate trust
6. **Peter Enters Another House** — Admission practices change because a concrete household exceeds the existing rule
7. **The Council and the Missing Chairs** — A negotiated letter travels outward with relief and continuing interpretive disputes
8. **Galatia Answers the Letter** — A disputed letter becomes a communal choice about responsibility rather than a remote command alone
9. **The Night Shift Waiting for the End** — Expectation remains livable without making daily responsibility a betrayal of hope
10. **The Meal in Corinth** — A ritual's meaning changes when the hungry participant becomes its measure of failure
11. **The Body with Different Voices** — Charismatic activity gains a limit based on the people meant to receive it
12. **The Collection Reaches a Door** — A distant theological relation becomes food and obligations in a particular household
13. **Phoebe Carries an Argument** — The Roman communities receive an argument whose social network resists reduction to isolated maxims
14. **Onesimus at the Threshold** — The correspondence cannot be called a completed liberation until the person's condition changes
15. **The Household Code Meets the Household** — The reader sees the distance between a household ideal and the dependent person's actual options
16. **James Asks Where the Coat Went** — The assembly's claimed faith becomes testable through a completed act of care
17. **The Office and the Silenced Teacher** — An institutional dispute preserves the teacher's contribution and the contested restrictions separately
18. **Three Letters and a Guest** — A household learns that welcome and boundary-setting can both protect relation
19. **The Curtain in the Argument** — The community can receive the exhortation without converting difference into inherited inferiority
20. **The Shore before the Empire** — The movement enters the imperial centre through shared dependence and unfinished testimony
21. **The Refuge Refuses a Creed Test** — The network survives less comfortably and remains available to those the new institutional boundaries exclude

## 11. The Unveilings and the Inheritances

The end of one book becomes the beginning of its custody. Visions survive copying, translation, institutional conflict, destruction, and care. The wider religious weave becomes causally active through custodians who contribute different disciplines of remembrance, accountability, hospitality, and refusal. Their sources remain distinct even when the fictional history intersects.

**The central conflict:** Can an inheritance remain alive when its keepers stop claiming to possess the whole truth?

**Chapters**

1. **The Beast in the Ledger** — The apocalypse becomes a challenge to lived imperial relations before a timetable for distant readers
2. **Mary's Interrupted Account** — A disputed woman's testimony survives without invented pages being passed off as recovered text
3. **Sophia in the Disputed Beginning** — The cosmology gains a challenging witness that can alter a proposal without being silently absorbed
4. **The Translator at the Crossing** — A translation preserves a recoverable disagreement that later remembering can use
5. **The Bowl and the Chain of Causes** — The coalition postpones a retaliatory operation and discovers a preventable cause it can actually change
6. **The Charioteer Is Not a Shortcut** — The intervention plan must name its particular obligations instead of hiding behind an imported cosmic mandate
7. **The Route That Spares a Settlement** — A threatened settlement survives because non-harm changes logistics rather than only the group's language
8. **The Canal and the Unforced Turn** — A route remains open because distinct approaches correct each other's practical excesses
9. **Mary in Another Testimony** — A mistaken identity inference is withdrawn, preventing an attempted reunion of persons the evidence cannot equate
10. **The Kitchen Has No Elevated Table** — The coalition changes who works, who receives, and who can speak at its next meeting
11. **The Names across the Water** — A stolen identification is corrected and an archive returns interpretive control to its custodians
12. **The Book with More Than One Keeper** — A supposedly ownerless myth becomes an accountable archive that changes the coalition's access rules
13. **The Archive Survives Its Benefactor** — The wider history becomes recoverable without one institution controlling every surviving witness
14. **The Ending Left Open** — Living archives pass into the modern era with a promise of renewal and an explicit ledger of costs not erased
15. **Lilith Leaves Her Name with the Keepers** — Modern remembering becomes possible through independent records rather than one overwhelming identity proclamation

## 12. The Return of Names

Modern lives encounter records that know more names than any one witness can bear. Selected material from The Unraveling returns through a disciplined reconstruction of identity and consequence. Remembering does not make anyone entitled to another person. The final work is practical: living together after revelation, recording what changed, and repairing what cannot simply be undone.

**The central conflict:** What should someone do after recovering a name that seems large enough to swallow everybody else's?

**Chapters**

1. **An Ordinary Place Develops an Exception** — Modern remembering begins with a limited witness and a damaged ordinary place
2. **June Asks What Happened First** — Lily gains a method and a collaborator rather than a compulsory story about herself
3. **The Ward Does Not Owe a Miracle** — Recovery practice gains a real consent boundary and a repair obligation that power cannot cancel
4. **Yuna Declines the Role** — The coalition must protect a young person's agency instead of treating potential as conscription
5. **The Coalition Brings Its Own Maps** — Distinct contributions from earlier transmissions become necessary to solve the modern route and identity problem
6. **The Garden Is Not a Memory You Own** — Recovered identity becomes a supported but bounded relation instead of an entitlement to other people's pasts
7. **The Contract behind the Immortality** — The coalition identifies a specific exploitative mechanism and the people owed repair
8. **The Firstborn's Preservation Order** — The conflict divides an institution internally and saves witnesses needed for later accountability
9. **Eve Offers the Third Door** — An adversary becomes a limited collaborator without absolution or mandatory reconciliation
10. **Mother Arrives without Replacing Anyone** — The foundational presence returns as a participant in repair rather than an eraser of personhood
11. **The New Passage Has an Old Cost** — A new passage works, but its users inherit concrete duties to people whose costs remain
12. **Lily and Lilith Keep Two Places** — Recovered identity enlarges relation while Lily's ordinary history and Lilith's long commitments remain separately accountable
13. **What Lilith and Eve Build Next** — A repaired refuge exists because the women cooperate; neither must surrender her account for their relationship to change
14. **The Names at the Table** — The series ends in a changed world where care continues and nobody must disappear for the ending to count

## How to read the supporting books

Read the novel straight through. Use the Codex when a disputed account, unfamiliar custom, location, word, or mathematical idea invites a closer look. Different traditions are allowed to disagree. Their differences can matter to the plot without being presented as established historical proof.

The ending must account for what people lived through. Remembering, reconciliation, or a changed worldline cannot erase injury, turn coercion into consent, or require forgiveness.
