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2026-08-31

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redacted sentence: unpublished prose Check every fact against mattie-ordish.md and silent-soil.md: the door (eleven entries, diagram, hand that takes pains), the chain (her father's? redacted sentence: unpublished prose

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Findings — scene 31, "The pantry door" (fresh draft), checked against canon:

  1. "The chain's my father's. Hundred links, with the tags. redacted sentence: unpublished prose The father-and-ditches origin is new invention, not contradicted by anything but also not backed by any citation. Flag for backfill rather than treat as an error — it's compatible with the ruled family history (father predeceased her, she's second-generation Ordish, a father doing ditch work fits), but it should go into canon as a new fact, not be assumed already established.

  2. "the gate and the thorn stump and the water trough all marked" on the door diagram — uncontradicted, uncited. redacted sentence Compatible, but the diagram's contents here are new detail, not confirmed by any existing citation.

  3. Burl: "who ate like a man paid to and said two words, both of them thanks." — minor.md records Burl's total dialogue across chs. redacted sentence: unpublished prose Uncontradicted, but worth checking against whatever scene delivers "four about the ham" so the budget isn't blown.

  4. Chain figures — "4 chains 00 from the stump" (late Seedmonth) and "6 chains 60" (Weedmonth) — match canon (mattie-ordish.md, silent-soil.md) exactly. No misquote.

  5. Measurement line and fixed marks ("chain from fixed marks... redacted sentence: unpublished prose Correct.

  6. redacted sentence: unpublished prose Correct.

  7. Clover ("undersown in Plowmonth, came up to first leaf, and sat") — matches canon exactly.

  8. Worms ("no worms... dug four spits... not a worm in any of them, and not a dead one either. Outside the arcs they're there") — matches canon exactly.

  9. Hay ("came in green in Weedmonth... Nine weeks," "twice a week since it went in") — arithmetic checks out: Day 9 = 23 Cornmonth (doy 233); a Weedmonth cut around the 20th (doy 170) gives 63 days = 9 weeks exactly, consistent with the timeline.md ruling that nine weeks is fine and with the draft correction in BACKFILL-ACT2.md ("hay was cut on 20 Weedmonth"). No problem.

  10. Onset window ("between the twelfth of Seedmonth... and her first chaining at the month's end") — matches canon exactly.

  11. Sheep ("came off in Milkmonth," "grazed it four days," "Two to the butcher at Ranner's Sluice") — matches canon exactly (silent-soil.md). Peri's exchange correctly stops at "sold, Milkmonth" and does not resolve the sealed open question of harm/safety — compliant with the sealed-question rule.

  12. Green-hay fire mechanism ("The wet in it feeds the same small life that runs a muck heap... it can climb until the stack chars from the inside and fires") — matches the real mechanism registered in farming-glossary.md ("microbial heating of damp hay... then exothermic chemistry to ignition"). No farming-fact problem; this reads as the author's-note content itself.

  13. redacted sentence: unpublished prose

  14. Knowledge-state check: no mention of Wystow, the third site, or any other site — correct for Day 9 (Edwin doesn't tell Mattie about Wystow until Day 21 per canon).

  15. Timeline dovetail into scene 32: the kettle goes on and the knock comes as the kettle has "not yet boiled," matching scene 32's "The neighbours came at half past eight... the good cups were out before the knocking started." No conflict; scene 31 ends at the exact hinge scene 32 opens on.

  16. Forbidden-content check: no sentence states the ground is dead; no keeping-charm/heap/field sentence; nothing resolves the sold-sheep or Tess-exposure sealed questions. Compliant.

  17. Eleven entries: the scene states "Eleven entries in charcoal" but narrates only eight (2 chain figures + clover-stopped + no-worms + hay-in + two "no change" + sheep-off). This is a partial enumeration, not a contradiction — the text never claims these eight are the complete set.

No other canon conflicts found in supper details, Tess's characterization, or Edwin's/Peri's conduct.