{
  "storyDay": 15,
  "snapshotDate": "2026-04-28",
  "releaseAt": "2026-04-29T05:00:00.000Z",
  "title": "The Shelf Gave",
  "tone": "alert, shaken, steady",
  "narrative": "The bark shelf at the east channel edge held long enough.\n\nOne step onto it, weight transferred, and the wood gave in a single quiet collapse — no crack, just the sudden absence of surface. YY's leg went through the gap. The other foot found nothing. One hand caught a fork in the branch above and held.\n\nBelow: the channel. Still producing. Seeds along the waterline, loose and accessible.\n\nYY worked it from the fork position — careful, one-handed — until the forage was done. The shelf's remains were still visible at the base of the branch, bark-side up, settled into the soft ground where the stag had stood.\n\nThe east path has a new gap in it now. The fur tuft in the cache is from the animal that made it.",
  "stateNote": "Near-fall at the east channel edge when stag-stressed bark shelf gave; caught a fork above and recovered; foraged from that position; food up slightly from channel yield, health down from the catch, attention sharpened.",
  "summary": "YY returned to the east channel edge and the bark shelf gave underfoot — caught a fork, recovered, and foraged from that position while the shelf settled below.",
  "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": 0.77,
    "food": 0.54,
    "attention": 0.82
  },
  "statsAfter": {
    "health": 0.74,
    "food": 0.57,
    "attention": 0.88
  }
}