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Findings:

1. redacted sentence: unpublished prose

2. "I've watched birds over fields for three hundred and fifty years" — conflicting fact: edwin.md establishes he is ~350 years old total, but his farming/observational career only began after the shed incident at 19-21 (system.md ruling: shed at NINETEEN, second year). Watching birds over fields for 350 years would mean since birth/infancy, which is not supported — minimal replacement preserving the reason: "I've watched birds over fields for three hundred and thirty years."

3. "First one since the Choosing," she said. "Five months." — conflicting fact: system.md and timeline.md (RULED 2026-08-28) pin Peri's Choosing to ~6 Milkmonth (doy 126); Day 8 = 22 Cornmonth = doy 238. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose Minimal replacement preserving the reason: "Not quite four months." (112 days ≈ 3 months 22 days — round to "not quite four months" or "three and a half months").

4. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose 028) — this is a skill level, not a class level, and levels-count-from-1 applies to the grant not this ding. Uncontradicted as used — no fix needed. (Retracting concern; the banned phrase rule specifically targets the class-level pairing with "26," not this skill ding.)

5. "The tilt's clearer. redacted sentence: unpublished prose 008). Fine.

6. "It's four miles to the Sluice" — conflicting fact: geography.md establishes Ranner's Sluice is "~28 miles from the tower," Saltings Corner "~15 miles from the tower," so Saltings Corner to Ranner's Sluice ≈ 13 miles by that arithmetic; scene 27 states "the seven miles from the bridge had taken the whole afternoon" (bridge to Saltings Corner), and timeline.md's SCENES.md engine line for scene 28/29 spans Day 8 with arrival at Ranner's Sluice implied evening of Day 8 (per timeline.md "Day 8 (22 Cornmonth): ... night at Ranner's Sluice"). Scene 28 has them leaving Saltings Corner in the morning, doing an hour of soil lesson, guesses to 31 by noon, the noon Weave question on "the causeway," afternoon to the plank bridge (level-up), then "four miles to the Sluice" stated at that point — implying total Saltings-to-Sluice distance far exceeds 13 miles if "four miles" is only what remains in mid/late afternoon. This is uncontradicted, uncited — the 13-mile figure is a Working derivation, not an on-page hard fact, and nothing on the page states total daily mileage, so it's a soft tension rather than a direct contradiction. Flagging as uncontradicted, uncited; move on.

7. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose "I've heard as much, forty years ago" or attribute the knowledge to secondhand report rather than personal experience: "Somebody told me, forty years ago." This must be fixed — it is a direct contradiction of established biography.

8. Fish/fowl exchange — same issue as #7: Edwin's claim to have personally eaten at the Sluice contradicts his established never-been-east-of-the-bridge biography; the "stale" joke ("Then it's stale," said Peri) depends on him having personal experience there, which cannot stand. Same fix as above resolves this.

9. "Peri's Choosing... this spring" / "Five months" phrasing overlap with #3 — already covered.

10. Weave answer format, box typography ("[The road you walk stands above still water.]" etc.) — uncontradicted; matches system.md's ruled format (present-tense fragments, pictures never names, mixable second/third person). Fine.

11. [Fate Magic — Level 2.] box — matches system.md's established box format and the Established citation in peri.md (ch. 008 "the drill"). Fine, though note system.md's box-format convention for skill levels elsewhere is [Skill unlocked: Name — Level N.] only for level-1 unlocks; a ding to level 2 uses the bare [Name — Level N.] form, consistent with the class-level exemplar. Uncontradicted.

12. "birds go around a field" content matches SCENES.md's binding list (scene 29 covers this explicitly as its own scene) — scene 28 only sets up the picture/prediction, doesn't resolve it, which is consistent with SCENES.md's split (28 = "instrument learned... answered in three pictures"; 29 = "a flock does what no flock does"). Fine, no overlap issue.

13. Knowledge state: "what Peri knows of the rings" — scene 28 doesn't mention rings directly (the noon question is generic "what is important on the road"), so no contradiction with what she was told in scene 22 about "a crop coming up in rings." Fine.

14. Act-two binding list check: no "pending" language, destiny not re-remarked, Weave doesn't touch Deep/site evidence, no forbidden names — all clear in this scene.

Summary of required fixes:
redacted sentence: unpublished prose Minimal fix: make it secondhand knowledge, not personal experience.

• "I've watched birds over fields for three hundred and fifty years" should be "three hundred and thirty years" (his life before ~19-21 was not spent farming/observing birds professionally per the ruled biography).
• "Five months" (since the Choosing) is arithmetically wrong per the ruled Choosing date (6 Milkmonth) and Day 8 (22 Cornmonth) — actual interval is not quite four months, not five.