Seed brief: Lily in the Arctic classroom

Full spoilers for chapters 1–31.

The adaptation: Lily contradicts her Arctic civics instructor and is put in detention. The book never shows this scene. Zven reports it to Gladias and Seila, about Lily, in a hotel room (c28-b59–c28-b68). The adaptation draws on:

• the Helisport scoring argument (c16-b62–c16-b75), which is the substance of her objection;
• Lord Ephelion's broadcast that she stared at in chapter 13 (c13-b61–c13-b69);
• her leaving home in chapter 23 (c23-b79–c23-b99).

Source: the committed chapter text in content/snowmoon/text/. Block IDs are c<chapter>-b<idx>.

Dates:

• Zven's report: 3724 Frostime 15 (dateline c28-b1). The class itself is undated. Lily was talking to Zven "the whole time" (c28-b64), so the report comes after the class.
• The broadcast: 3724 Harvestmoon 8 (c13-b1).
• Her leaving: reported by Seila in a call on the night of 3724 Mistime 22 (c23-b1, c23-b74).

1. Citations

Events

What	Blocks
The classroom scene, as reported
Zven: Lily wants to come back	c28-b59–c28-b62
The instructor calls Helisport scoring stupid and Veridian	c28-b63
Lily on her neck band with Zven, then Febric; "She got up"; additive versus multiplicative scoring	c28-b64
The instructor: "in real life you win by focusing on only one thing"	c28-b65
Lily: work, a bigger house, and the time to enjoy it	c28-b66
Detention	c28-b67
"So now she thinks the Arctics are lame and stupid"	c28-b68
She cannot leave the boarding school	c28-b83–c28-b84
Seila and Bai will advise her	c28-b87
Before
Sixty percent on a history exam; turns away; plays her game on the couch	c1-b117–c1-b124
Fails a civics test at fifty-nine percent; Gladias's reassurance; Vil's 75% offer of a Northglade trip	c8-b104, c8-b110–c8-b124
Withdraws at the family dinner after Hreda's 96%	c13-b54–c13-b60
The Helisport game on screen cut by Ephelion's message; Seila unplugs it; Lily stares	c13-b61–c13-b67
Lily taps her game, lights up, cheers quietly, eats fast	c13-b68–c13-b69
Seventy on a civics test, happier, more engaged in the game; nobody knows which game	c16-b77–c16-b80
Wanted to go to Northglade; dislikes the cold	c17-b105–c17-b108
Eighty-one percent; the trip now moot	c21-b18–c21-b22
Leaving
Seila finds the Arctic chat group; Lily's defense of Arctic philosophy; the shouting; the open window; the watch on an autobus	c23-b79–c23-b93
Seila hangs up on Gladias	c23-b94–c23-b99
Logs in from a new device; Zven told to stay in touch	c24-b9–c24-b17
Crossed into Arctic-occupied Northglade; found on camera at an Arctic boarding school a kilometer from the GPH	c26-b60–c26-b63
Arctics open travel and clinics in Northglade	c26-b66
After
Reunion in the GPH, Northglade	c31-b75–c31-b94

Dialogue

• Lily's own spoken words in scenes:
  • "Sixty percent on the history exam. Whatever..." (c1-b119)
  • "You've already tried … FIFTY-NINE PERCENT. Third-worst in the class." (c8-b116)
  • "Uncle Vil, Aunt Daia, Mom! I got eighty one percent on my latest civics test!" (c21-b19)
  • "Dad!" (c31-b77)
  • "Yay!" (c31-b91)
  • "I'm sorry, Mom." (c31-b81) is unattributed. It follows Lily's hug and Gladias's greeting, so it is probably hers.
• Lily's arguments, reported by others:
  • Through Seila: c23-b88.
  • Through Zven: c28-b64 and c28-b66.
• The instructor, reported by Zven: c28-b63, c28-b65.
• Ephelion:
  • The broadcast text: c13-b64.
  • The live debate on economic growth as the one thing that compounds: c8-b27–c8-b31, c8-b35.
• Helisport scoring, Febric and Gladias: c16-b67–c16-b75.
• Parents reacting to the news: c28-b69–c28-b81.
• Gladias's comfort and Vil's incentive: c8-b113, c8-b115, c8-b117–c8-b120.

Setting

• The boarding school: "some kind of boarding school that the Arctics set up. About one kilometer away from the GPH" (c26-b63). It will not let her leave (c28-b84).
• The civics class: c28-b63. The text gives no physical detail of the room, the building or the detention.
• Northglade:
  • Over two hundred kilometers inland, with the best math university in Veridia (c17-b101, c17-b103).
  • On an island about twenty kilometers wide, snowbound at Rainmoon (c31-b4–c31-b5, c31-b64).
  • Its GPH enclave has stone gates (c31-b66).
• The family restaurant with the screen: c13-b49, c13-b61–c13-b67.
• The family home and Lily's room (with a window and a mirror): c1-b109–c1-b124, c23-b81, c23-b91.

Objects

• Neck band: c28-b64.
• Hand device and its unnamed game: c1-b124, c13-b68, c16-b78–c16-b80.
• The Arctic chat group: c23-b84.
• The watch she throws onto an autobus: c23-b93.
• The new device she logs in from: c24-b10.
• Helisport equipment:
  • Redball, blueball, greenball, and ten pins on a board (c16-b55–c16-b60).
  • Copters (c11-b24, c11-b44).
  • The redball-only school game (c11-b26).
• Colorball, the school game Helisport grew from: c8-b64.

Screens

• Ephelion's broadcast: c13-b64.
• Helisport scoreboards (counts per ball type, then a combined score): c16-b62, c16-b66.
• Vil's message about the failed test: c8-b104.
• Seila's red call request: c23-b75.

The scoring argument

The book lays out the scoring argument three times:

• Febric's history of the sport (c16-b68–c16-b73).
• The scoreboards (c16-b62, c16-b66). Each combined score is the product of the three counts: 6 × 9 × 31 = 1,674; 11 × 7 × 23 = 1,771; 6 × 10 × 31 = 1,860. The text never states the formula; it says the score was made "multiplicative" (c16-b70).
• Lily's version, through Zven (c28-b64). She says that with added points the best strategy is almost always to focus on one ball type, and that multiplying makes balance pay.

2. What the text gives and what an adapter must invent

Given

• The argument on both sides, nearly word for word, though only in Zven's retelling (c28-b63–c28-b66).
• That Lily stood up (c28-b64).
• That she was not alone. Zven was on her neck band "the whole time", Febric joined, and "We went through the history of Helisport" (c28-b64).
• The instructor's gesture ("threw up his hands") and his claim (c28-b65).
• The punishment (c28-b67) and her conclusion (c28-b68).
• The ideas she is answering:
  • The instructor's "focusing on only one thing" (c28-b65) restates Ephelion's case for the one vector that compounds (c8-b35).
  • Ephelion's broadcast pre-empts the multi-dimensional reply: "Do not think that the idea that there are multiple dimensions to goodness and to success saves you from this" (c13-b64).
• What she believed when she left: success-conditioned love as motivation (c23-b88). This echoes the broadcast's "give you love when you win, and a cold shoulder when you lose" (c13-b64).

To invent

• Lily's appearance. The text gives none. Her only physical descriptions are posture and action: eyes to the ground (c1-b117), turning away (c1-b121, c8-b114), crying (c8-b110), staring (c13-b66), running into a room (c21-b18) and a hug (c31-b77). Her age is never stated.
• The room, the building, the other students, the language of instruction, and what Arctic "civics" covers.
• The instructor's name, face, age and voice. The text gives only "he" (c28-b65).
• How the neck band conversation works in a classroom without being caught, and whether the instructor notices.
• What detention is in an Arctic boarding school, and how long it lasts.
• How Lily got from Meldan to the school. The text gives only the facts in c26-b62–c26-b63 and the open travel in c26-b66.
• What the game on her hand device is (c16-b80). Whether it connects to the Arctic chat group (c23-b84) is not said.

Conflicts between the text and the seeded art

The seeded illustration c28-b064-lily-stands-up (content/snowmoon/illustrations/chapter-28.json) invents a classroom with "identical pale desks", an instructor "in a stiff grey uniform" with crossed arms, and students "in matching outfits". None of these is in the text. The prompt does include the neck band, which the text supports (c28-b64).

3. Who is in it

The design board's about fields say that every character look on the board is invented except for the facts listed. The "Looks" column below gives only what the text says.

Person	Looks (text)	Sound (text)
Lily	Not described. Eyes to the ground (c1-b117, c13-b57). Turns her face away (c1-b121, c8-b114). Cries (c8-b110). Sits still and stares at the broadcast (c13-b58, c13-b66). Absorbed in a game (c1-b124, c13-b68). Lights up and quietly cheers (c13-b69). Rushes in with news (c21-b18). Runs to hug her father (c31-b77). Dislikes the cold (c17-b108).	Flat and dismissive ("Whatever...", c1-b119). Loud in distress ("FIFTY-NINE PERCENT", c8-b116). Bright in triumph (c21-b19). Her two arguments come only through others (c23-b88 via Seila; c28-b64, c28-b66 via Zven).
The Arctic instructor	Not described beyond "he" (c28-b65).	Dismissive. Calls the scoring "stupid", "an example of how Veridians like to overcomplicate things" (c28-b63). "Threw up his hands" (c28-b65).
Zven	A boy who jumps down the stairs three at a time (c1-b110). Jumps onto a sofa (c28-b57). Yellow team shirt at Helisport (c11-b24).	Excited ("I have some good news. It's Lily!", c28-b59). Loyal ("Anything for my sister.", c24-b13).
Febric	An older teenage boy with a hand device cabled to a compute box (c1-b111).	Enthusiastic explainer of the scoring history (c16-b67–c16-b73). "The math is almost as fun as the actual game!" (c16-b75).
Lord Ephelion	Appears as an image beside his message (c13-b63). The text gives no description.	The broadcast's imperatives (c13-b64). The debate's long cadences (c8-b27–c8-b35). Gladias calls him "a gifted demagogue" (c8-b37).
Seila	Not described.	Shouting in capitals on the call (c23-b79, c23-b95–c23-b96, c23-b98). Tender earlier ("It's okay to not be good at everything", c1-b120). Practical after the news (c28-b87).
Gladias	Not described in these scenes.	Reassuring (c8-b113–c8-b119). Self-righteous after the news (c28-b69–c28-b74).
Other students	Not in the text.	None.

4. Design board and source figures

Characters (content/snowmoon/designs/characters/):

• lily.json: its facts cite c1-b117, c1-b119, c1-b124, c1-b125, c17-b108, c24-b6, c24-b13, c28-b78 and c28-b84. Its about says the book does not describe her appearance.
• zven.json, febric.json, ephelion.json, seila.json and gladias.json.
• There is no entry for the Arctic instructor.

Locations (content/snowmoon/designs/locations/):

• neighborhood-restaurant.json: it has a screen that shows broadcasts (c16-b54). Chapter 13's restaurant is not tied to a location file, so whether it is the same place is unstated.
• family-home.json.
• greater-plum-harbor.json: its facts include the Northglade gates (c31-b66).
• There are no entries for the Arctic boarding school or its classroom.

Styles: styles/techno-vistas.json and styles/watercolor.json are the starting points.

Source figures: none. The Helisport scoreboards (c16-b62, c16-b66) and Ephelion's broadcast (c13-b64) are screen blocks, not SVG figures.

Seeded illustrations (content/snowmoon/illustrations/, all listed in published.json):

• c13-b065-hijacked-screen (Lily staring).
• c16-b060-helisport-broadcast.
• c8-b111-lily-couch.
• c23-b078-red-call.
• c28-b057-zven-sofa and c28-b064-lily-stands-up (see section 2).
• c31-b077-lily-hugs-dad.

Pronunciation (content/snowmoon/pronunciation.json):

• Entries exist for "Helisport", "Colorball", "Zven", "Febric", "Seila", "Ephelion" and "Northglade".
• There is no entry for "Lily".

5. Open creative questions

1. Whose voice tells it? Options include Lily in the first person, the book's own frame of Zven relaying it in the hotel room (c28-b59–c28-b68), or both. And how much of the argument is hers, and how much is fed live by Zven and Febric through the neck band (c28-b64)?
2. Does she know whom she is answering? The instructor's line (c28-b65) is Ephelion's argument (c8-b35, c13-b64). The broadcast already dismissed the "multiple dimensions" reply that she makes. Does she know she is also answering what she herself told Seila on the night she left (c23-b88)?
3. What does the room look like, and who is in it? The text gives nothing about the school, the classmates or the instructor (see section 2). Are the other students Northgladers, Arctics, or other runaways like her?

6. Suggested length and beats

Suggestion only. A short story of 2,000–3,000 words, or a 6–8 minute audio drama or short film.

1. Harvestmoon 8. The family restaurant. The Helisport game cuts to Ephelion; Lily stares while Seila hunts for the plug (c13-b61–c13-b66).
2. The game on her device; a private cheer (c13-b68–c13-b69).
3. The window (c23-b91) and the watch thrown onto an autobus (c23-b93). Brief, or as a memory.
4. Northglade, winter. The Arctic boarding school she cannot leave (c26-b63, c28-b84). A new device, Zven on the line (c24-b10). (The place is invented.)
5. Civics class. The instructor mocks Helisport scoring (c28-b63).
6. On the neck band, Zven and Febric give her the history (c28-b64, drawing on c16-b68–c16-b73). She stands and argues added versus multiplied points (c28-b64).
7. "In real life you win by focusing on only one thing" (c28-b65).
8. Her reply: the work, the bigger house, and the hours left to enjoy it (c28-b66).
9. Detention (c28-b67). "They talk about striving for the best, but really they just care about their own authority" (c28-b68). She wants to come home (c28-b61).