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@@ -192,12 +192,33 @@ belongs to nobody in Britain, and dusk comes anyway.
 ## Act Two — Over *(~65 min)*
 
 **Beats**
-- The crossing. Read-aloud, ≤4 sentences. Ash on wet grass; the same valley; no birds.
+- **The crossing** — *read aloud or paraphrase:*
+
+  > The tree line is where it was and the wall is where it was, and every sheep is gone.
+  > Everything is grey with something that is not frost, and it lifts into the air where
+  > your boots go through it. It tastes of a fire that went out a long time ago and has
+  > not been rained on since. Nothing is calling — not a bird, not a thing in the grass.
+
+  - **Do not say "nuclear", "1962", or "ash".** The Geiger says the first, Bhattacharya
+    says the second, and *ash* is a word a player should be the one to use.
+  - If anyone asks what the grey is, the honest answer is that it is on their hands now.
+  - Nobody rolls anything here. Let the silence sit until a player breaks it.
 - **Coherence starts draining** — one per hour, and the record offers each agent a small,
   correct-feeling detail about why they belong here. `[CUS: Insight — that memory is new]`
-- First contact: **the column**, forty-one people, three generations, walking north in
-  good order at about two miles an hour. They stop. They offer water they cannot spare.
-  `[CUS: Persuade — they will believe almost anything except that it is 2026]`
+- **First contact: the column** — *read aloud or paraphrase:*
+
+  > They come over the shoulder of the hill in a line, forty-odd of them, walking at the
+  > pace of the slowest without anybody having to be told. The old are at the front, the
+  > children are in the middle, and six at the very back are not quite keeping up. The
+  > line stops when it sees you, and one woman walks forward with her hands held where
+  > you can see them.
+
+  - **The six at the back are the hollow men.** Do not name them and do not linger on
+    them. They are one item in a list, and the list moves on.
+  - Her hands are visible because this column has met armed men before. Never explain
+    that; let it be noticed or not.
+  - **Say nothing further until a player speaks.** They offer water they cannot spare.
+    `[CUS: Persuade — they will believe almost anything except that it is 2026]`
 - **Ivy Hetherington** (b. 1948, aged 14 when she arrived) leads by consent. She has
   walked the valley since before the agents' parents were born and has an almanac of a
   journey she has never completed.
@@ -261,6 +282,23 @@ matter — the entry is still filed, and the second one is already practising. G
 The decision, taken at the stump, at dawn, with Ivy Hetherington standing on the far
 side of it because she has walked south for the first time in sixty-four years.
 
+*Read aloud or paraphrase:*
+
+> She has walked south, which she has not done since she was fourteen, and she stops a
+> yard short of the cut stump because that is where the ground stops being hers. Behind
+> her the line has sat down in the heather to wait, the way it sits down every morning of
+> its life. She does not ask who you are, or what you are holding, or what the paper says
+> — she asks whether there is a north.
+
+- **This works in both branches.** Whether Bhattacharya told them at the briefing or they
+  found it in the depot, she arrives at the same question, and it is the one question the
+  agents cannot answer kindly and truthfully at the same time.
+- If the GM wants the line spoken rather than reported, it is **"Is there a north?"** and
+  nothing after it. Then stop talking. The silence is the scenario.
+- **She does not argue, plead, or bargain.** She has walked three thousand times and she
+  is not going to beg at the end of it. Anything that makes her pitiable cheapens the
+  decision, which has to be made by people who respect her.
+
 - **Cancel the entry.** The duplicate stops being a place the record has to supply. The
   seam closes for good. The forty-one are not killed, exactly, which is the worst
   available answer and the department will write it as a success.
@@ -464,8 +502,7 @@ twice.*
 ## What this outline does not yet have
 
 1. ~~Pregens.~~ **Done** — see Casting, above. Six from the duty roster, no new sheets.
-2. **The read-aloud text.** Three blocks only: the crossing, the first sight of the
-   column, and Ivy at the stump.
+2. ~~The read-aloud text.~~ **Done** — three blocks, in place in Act Two and the Close.
 3. **Handouts.** The 1962 authorisation, Ivy's almanac page, the coroner's note on the
    sheep-pen body.
 4. **A written exposure model for Act Four**, so the GM knows what a fight at the cordon