{
  "storyDay": 15,
  "snapshotDate": "2026-04-28",
  "releaseAt": "2026-04-29T05:00:00.000Z",
  "title": "The Bank Gave First",
  "tone": "winded, undefeated, closer than before",
  "narrative": "The bank gave at the curve, not on the approach.\n\nYY was three-quarters of the way to the rise when the northeast bank edge released — a wedge of undermined soil, silent, dropping into the stream. One foot had just committed to it. The scramble back was loud, ungainly, both hands in the root-mat, cold water at the ankle.\n\nOn stable ground, the body ran its check. Everything present. The bank edge was two feet away.\n\nPast it, through the gap the collapse had opened: the rise. And past the rise, at the right angle for the first time from any ground YY had stood on, the sound of the colony — faint, directional, unmistakable.\n\nThe fall had not reached it. The fall had faced it.",
  "stateNote": "Stream bank collapsed at the northeast curve during the east push; scrambled back to stable ground; health cost from cold water exposure and effort; from the recovery position, colony ground is visible past the rise for the first time; food unchanged.",
  "summary": "YY pushed northeast along the stream and the bank gave underfoot at the curve; scrambled back and from the recovery position heard the colony clearly for the first time — closer than any deliberate approach had reached.",
  "worldAnchor": "World Day for Safety and Health at Work (April 28) — the physical cost that daily labor extracts, invisible until the moment it nearly isn't",
  "statsBefore": {
    "health": 0.54,
    "food": 0.5,
    "attention": 0.72
  },
  "statsAfter": {
    "health": 0.48,
    "food": 0.5,
    "attention": 0.79
  }
}