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2026-08-31

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You are a canon-consistency lens for a novel draft. Facts only — no style or voice comments, and never propose cutting a reason, an explanation, an answer or a qualification.

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Report as a list of findings only: quoted line, the conflicting fact (file and quote), and a minimal replacement preserving the sentence's reason. If a fact is merely uncited but not contradicted, say "uncontradicted, uncited" and move on. No praise. Your final message is the report.

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🔧 Read draft/book-01/scenes/38-twelve-stakes.md

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🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/minor.md

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🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/mattie-ordish.md

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🔧 Read notes/canon/world/silent-soil.md

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🔧 Read notes/canon/timeline.md

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🔧 Read draft/book-01/SCENES.md

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FINDINGS

  1. "K, L and M went into the barn instead, cut, lettered, dated, and laid dry across two beams" ... "K, L, M: made and waiting. The edge they mark isn't ours to stand a stake in."
    redacted sentence: unpublished prose The scene's single blanket reason ("isn't ours to stand a stake in") is true of L and M but not of K.
    Minimal replacement preserving the reason: split the log line, e.g. "K: made and waiting, for our own headland. L, M: made and waiting. The edge they mark isn't ours to stand a stake in yet."

  2. "I said the stump had moved, in Seedmonth, when it was the reading that was wrong, and Mother wrote ask if stump moved in the book instead of laughing at me."
    redacted sentence: unpublished prose The scene has Tess say her mother wrote it.
    Minimal replacement preserving the reason: "...and I wrote 'ask if stump moved' in the book myself instead of feeling foolish about it." (or otherwise attribute the note to Tess rather than Mattie).

  3. "So there's no I in any series of mine, and no O either, for the same reason, if a series ever runs that long."
    The O-omission is not present in any canon file (silent-soil.md and minor.md both give only "I omitted"). Not contradicted, but new — flag for author confirmation rather than treat as established.

  4. "Will they be here in ten years? ... You'll be five and twenty when somebody paces these for the hundred and twentieth time" — arithmetic check: Tess is 15 (minor.md, mattie-ordish.md), 25 − 15 = 10 years, 10 years × 12 monthly pacings = 120th pacing. redacted sentence: unpublished prose

  5. "and each one logged before the next was begun: its letter, the hour, and its chained distance to two fixed things that would outlive everybody present — the gatepost or the thorn stump, the water trough or the ditch willow" — matches silent-soil.md's stake protocol exactly. Uncontradicted.

  6. redacted sentence: unpublished prose

  7. Charring the stake points for preservation — uncontradicted, uncited (no canon statement either way; real-world practice, plausible).

  8. The brother-in-law already knowing the errand ("the alehouse being faster than any post") — mundane, not the engine (SCENES.md H1 reserves the engine for Edwin's own frictions, never the post/who-answers); consistent with that rule. No character names the luck aloud; "an errand that went easier than errands go" and "within an inch of the thickness Edwin would have named" are narration only, unremarked by any character — satisfies SCENES.md's engine constraints (one small move, on Edwin's own chore/time, not named aloud in this scene).

  9. Timing: Scene 38 (Day 11 evening) has Sennet's leave to dig still pending — consistent with scene 37 (his "No" that morning, the evening "what would have to be true" question, and his yes arriving only at dawn Day 12). The K/L/M-in-barn state as of Day 11 evening does not contradict silent-soil.md's later note that L and M are driven "the next morning" (Day 12) — but see finding 1 for the reason given being wrong for K specifically.

  10. redacted sentence: unpublished prose

  11. No forbidden names, no harm/safety claims, no resolution of sealed silent-soil questions in this scene.