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2026-08-30

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You are making two small edits to sealed files in redacted. Do not print the files' contents in your final reply; report only that the edits were made and where (file + section name). Use the Edit tool.

In notes/sealed/magic-origins.md, at the end of section "## 3. The builders and the working", append this bullet (verbatim):

The Choosing at eighteen, from the builders' side (DRMacIver,
2026-08-30). The builders had a modern child-mortality rate, for
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
as protecting them. So the working takes nobody under eighteen — no
class, no attributes, no vitality, no protection — and in a world
that has since fallen to a medieval rate, about half of children
never reach it. Nobody on the page knows this is a design choice;
it is weather. This is the series' villain (notes/theme.md, unpublished "The
series spine") and it is never a plot feature that the builders did
it.

In notes/sealed/destiny.md, find the section "## What the story is now committed to" and, immediately before the line beginning "Can no longer happen.", insert this paragraph (verbatim):

Cross-note, 2026-08-30 (DRMacIver's series spine — notes/theme.md unpublished). The owed "second binding" has a candidate: Peri casts [Seal of the Loom] on a dying child to make it live, and the fever breaks overnight (notes/canon/deferred-beats.md, "redacted"). redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted, the nursing, the revealings, the Seal) — the mechanism is never stated whole; the Seal does not cure and is not a tell on the body; no prohibition-shaped reading ("bound to not die") may be voiced as true; the child is never visibly harmed by the Seal on the page. redacted sentence

Then confirm both edits by grepping for the phrases "from the builders' side" and "Cross-note, 2026-08-30" and report the line numbers only.

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🔧 Read notes/sealed/magic-origins.md

✅ 318 lines, 19580 chars

🔧 Read notes/sealed/destiny.md

✅ 790 lines, 52956 chars

🔧 Edit notes/sealed/magic-origins.md

✅ 1 lines, 170 chars

🔧 Edit notes/sealed/destiny.md

✅ 1 lines, 164 chars

I misplaced the destiny.md insertion — it should be immediately before "Can no longer happen.", not before the section heading. Fixing.

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🔧 Edit notes/sealed/destiny.md

✅ 1 lines, 164 chars

🔧 Edit notes/sealed/destiny.md

✅ 1 lines, 164 chars

🔧 Bash: grep -n "from the builders' side" redacted/notes/sealed/magic-origins.md; grep -n "Cros… (Grep for confirmation phrases)

✅ 2 lines, 1223 chars

Both edits made and confirmed.

notes/sealed/magic-origins.md — bullet appended at the end of section "## 3. The builders and the working" (line 120).
notes/sealed/destiny.md — paragraph inserted in section "## What the story is now committed to", immediately before "Can no longer happen." (line 581).