_Status: planned branch chapter. _
## Planned Function
- Keep Clara alive and active while giving the shaytan a serious attempt to remove her influence. - Use the helper jinn's bargain as the practical mechanism behind misdirection. - Avoid repeating the exact Islamic-route stair accident.
## Continuity Locks
- Clara's danger remains concrete and ordinary on the surface. - Clara's insight is still that refuge is not a phrase used as machinery. - James should not know the helper jinn have bargained until the route earns that reveal.