{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "title": "The Spare Light — original story beats",
  "beats": [
    {
      "id": "spare-1",
      "title": "The last screening",
      "event": "Mira prepares the cinema for its final screening. A notice announces that the lobby becomes a community room next week.",
      "change": "The old routine has a deadline and the building has an established next use."
    },
    {
      "id": "spare-2",
      "title": "The reel must leave",
      "event": "Eli arrives with an archive case. Mira makes him wait until the screening is over.",
      "change": "The reel’s departure makes this farewell time-sensitive."
    },
    {
      "id": "spare-3",
      "title": "The projector fails",
      "event": "The screen goes dark. Mira finds the replacement lamp carton empty and turns the OPEN sign face down.",
      "change": "Her usual way of welcoming the audience no longer works."
    },
    {
      "id": "spare-4",
      "title": "A different kind of light",
      "event": "Eli’s bicycle lamp throws the ticket box handle’s shadow onto the lobby wall. Mira initially keeps searching for a lamp.",
      "change": "An alternative appears, but Mira has not yet chosen it."
    },
    {
      "id": "spare-5",
      "title": "Close the old farewell",
      "event": "Mira closes the reel into its archive case, then lifts the ticket box back into the bicycle lamp’s beam.",
      "change": "She stops trying to restore the screening and actively tests the shadow idea."
    },
    {
      "id": "spare-6",
      "title": "Open the doors",
      "event": "Mira folds old tickets into a roof and tree. Eli steadies the light. She unlocks the entrance and invites the neighbours toward the wall.",
      "change": "The private experiment becomes an imperfect public event."
    },
    {
      "id": "spare-7",
      "title": "Make room in the light",
      "event": "A neighbour adds a hand-shadow bird. More hands join. Mira lowers her own paper tree and lets the others shape the story.",
      "change": "She shares control instead of arranging the farewell alone."
    },
    {
      "id": "spare-8",
      "title": "A new invitation",
      "event": "After the applause, Mira posts BRING A LIGHT NEXT FRIDAY. Eli takes the reel to the archive and leaves his lamp. Mira keeps the paper roof with the old tickets.",
      "change": "The reel still leaves, while the community-room setup gives the new invitation a place to happen."
    }
  ]
}