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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.

Read, in full (rulings accumulate dated at the bottom of files, so read whole files):

Read ONLY the files listed above. Do not open, search, glob or grep any other directory or file; do not use grep or find at all.

redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose 008 fact; old pasture, pale, let to a grazier; gate with no board; plank bridge; between dykes); soil-listening range limits (a quarter mile is past honest reading, magic.md); Edwin's walking-onto-land-without-leave claims against his biography; whether writing a dated guess "quiet" in the grey book contradicts anything (e.g. the later pale-field examination facts in silent-soil.md — nought in every kind found on Day 18 by the old calendar; the guess must not amount to a reading); the landlady recognising him within two hours (edwin.md's fame-east-of-the-bridge facts); timeline (Day 8 night at Ranner's Sluice); Peri's calibration lines against her file; forbidden names; the act-two binding list (the Weave never touches a site's evidence — scene 28's second picture pointed at birds avoiding a field: check whether this scene treats the Weave answer as evidence about the site itself or only as where-to-look, and flag if it crosses the line).

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/29-birds-go-around-a-field.md

✅ 42 lines, 5617 chars

🔧 Read draft/book-01/scenes/27-the-cellar-at-saltings-corner.md

✅ 36 lines, 6578 chars

🔧 Read draft/book-01/scenes/28-fifty-guesses.md

✅ 68 lines, 7672 chars

🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/edwin.md

✅ 972 lines, 64776 chars

🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/peri.md

✅ 975 lines, 64406 chars

🔧 Read notes/canon/world/geography.md

✅ 403 lines, 25687 chars

🔧 Read notes/canon/world/timeline.md

✅ 866 lines, 56291 chars

🔧 Read notes/canon/world/magic.md

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

✅ 777 lines, 48373 chars

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🔧 Read draft/book-01/SCENES.md

✅ 216 lines, 18952 chars

🔧 Read draft/book-01/BACKFILL-ACT2.md

✅ 34 lines, 3920 chars

Findings:

  1. "A quarter mile off, where an old pasture lay between two dykes" and later Edwin's "past that, at a quarter mile" — the scene consistently places the field at a quarter mile from the road. redacted sentence: unpublished prose The scene never states direction as north-east, only "north" ("split round the pasture north of the road," "ground unread"). Minimal fix: change "north" to "north-east" at both occurrences (line 9's implicit direction and line 27's "pasture north of the road"), and if a distance-from-Fenholt figure is ever stated it must read fourteen miles, not twelve — the scene as drafted doesn't state the Fenholt mileage, so only the compass correction is needed.

  2. redacted sentence: unpublished prose Fine as is.

  3. "past that, at a quarter mile, I've got nothing" and "range a quarter mile" — consistent with magic.md: "a quarter mile is past honest reading" (chs. 008, 009). Not contradicted, matches canon exactly.

  4. "Guess, marked as one: quiet." — this is written as a guess in the grey book, explicitly not a reading ("Anything I said about that field from here would be a guess wearing my voice"). No conflict with silent-soil.md's Day 18 examination (nought in every kind) since no reading is claimed here — uncontradicted, and the scene itself is careful to keep the guess non-evidentiary, consistent with the binding-list rule that "the Weave never touches a site's evidence."

  5. The Weave/birds evidence-crossing check: scene 28 (source) frames birds-around-a-field as a Weave answer used only as a "where to look" trigger, per Peri's own gloss ("I'll have seen it because I was told to look... that field is important"). redacted sentence: unpublished prose A hit you were watching for isn't worth what a hit out of nowhere is worth") and files it as "Second picture" under SIGNS, not as a Weave-confirmed fact about the site. This stays on the right side of the binding-list rule — the Weave pointed at a location to watch, and the actual observation (birds splitting) is empirical, not Weave-asserted. No breach.

  6. "They didn't lift... They went round" — matches ch. 008/canon language exactly ("Birds turn aside from a field and will not cross it," silent-soil.md, magic.md) and Edwin's stated expertise in edwin.md ("three hundred and thirty years... none of them is a field with nothing visibly in it"). Consistent.

  7. "I have walked onto other men's land without leave twice in three hundred years, and both times it was because water was moving and minutes mattered" — uncontradicted, uncited: no existing canon file states this two-time figure for Edwin walking onto land without leave. redacted sentence: unpublished prose

  8. "the landlady... redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose inside two hours." These are different visits (Day 8 vs Day 18) and could both be true, but a reader/continuity-checker should confirm Day 18's "unrecognised" isn't contradicted by establishing him as already known there from Day 8. Flag for author: the two visits' recognition status should be reconciled or the difference deliberately explained (e.g., different staff on duty, or the story means "unrecognized" narrowly).

  9. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose Correct.

  10. redacted sentence: unpublished prose marked separately"). No conflict.

  11. No forbidden names, no act-two binding-list violations otherwise (no lifespan guarantee stated, no "one spell, one shed" repeated, no god/realm named).

Summary of required fix: the field's stated direction from the road ("north," implied at lines 9, 27) should read "north-east" per BACKFILL-ACT2.md's governing correction, preserving the existing quarter-mile distance and reasoning; and the Day-8/Day-18 recognition-status discrepancy at Ranner's Sluice should be flagged to the author for reconciliation.