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Canon-consistency findings — scenes 56–57

Findings

1. Seal-of-the-Loom cooldown arithmetic is wrong (scene 56 unpublished, lines 21).**
   Quote: "it's counting down from the fifteenth, and it says twenty-two left as of midnight. It said twenty-two this morning."
   Canon (notes/canon/system.md, [Seal of the Loom] cooldown-arithmetic ruling; notes/canon/world/timeline.md interval-arithmetic section): cast Day 1 = 15 Cornmonth, counted inclusively, clears at the midnight beginning 14 Harvestmonth = Day 30. Remaining count on Day N = 31 − N. The scene's own text puts this beat on "the second afternoon" of two days' whip-setting, i.e. Day 24 or 25 (8–9 Harvestmonth) — remaining should read 7 (Day 24) or **6 (Day 25), not 22. redacted sentence: unpublished prose

2. The level-6 box's date conflicts with existing canon (scene 56 unpublished).**
   draft/book-01/BACKFILL-ACT2.md already commits: "Peri's class boxes: 6 (setting whips, 7 Harvestmonth)." But the scene's own chronology has whips going in only on the 8th–9th ("the whips went in on the eighth and ninth," line 3), with the box arriving on "the second afternoon" of that two-day stretch — i.e. the 9th, not the 7th. notes/canon/world/timeline.md also has the whole containment (fence + whips) spanning "6th–9th Harvestmonth" as one block, not split fence-only(6–7)/whips-only(8–9) as the scene asserts. Fix: either move the fence/whip split so whip-setting begins on the 6th–7th (matching timeline.md) and let the box land on the 7th as backfill requires, or get DRMacIver's sign-off to move the backfilled box date to the 9th. As drafted, the two documents disagree about when Level 6 fired.

**3. SCENES.md's day range for scene 56 unpublished doesn't cover its own content.
draft/book-01/SCENES.md's Act-two table lists scene 56 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose The prompt's stated range (Days 22–24) matches the prose, not the table. Flag for whoever maintains SCENES.md — the row should read 22–24.

4. Whip count is right (340) but the "inside" 60 are never mentioned (scene 56 unpublished).
   redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose three weeks and a day on."* "Inside"/"outside" there means inside/outside the outer arc (the phenomenon's boundary), not inside/outside the fence — a second, distinct planting used as an experimental comparison, separate from the boundary redacted along the west/south-west. The scene's 340 total is arithmetically correct (280+60) but the prose never sets any whips inside the arc; it only describes the outside redacted. Needs a line — plausibly in Edwin's speech to Mattie or a short beat — noting some whips also went in inside the line, as a comparison (this is the seed of the ch.020 "Sorrel's correction," so it should exist to be corrected later). Without it, the 340 figure is unsupported by what's shown.

5. Bare-root whip planting in early-to-mid September (6–9 Harvestmonth) is horticulturally premature (scene 56 unpublished).**
   Real-world bare-root planting of blackthorn/elder/hazel/sallow whips is done autumn–winter after leaf-fall (roughly November–March), not early autumn while stock is still in leaf; setting bare-root whips in September risks poor establishment. This is a farming-plausibility gap the scene doesn't address. Suggested fix: either note the whips are pot-grown/container stock (not bare-root), or have Edwin acknowledge the early timing as a known compromise ("not the season I'd choose, but the season we've got" or similar), rather than silently presenting September bare-root whips as unremarkable good practice. (Flagging for the farming-check pass; the 3-foot trench itself is already canon-established in world/silent-soil.md and world/magic.md and is not in question.)

**6. "Nine days" for the outer band's ripening (scene 57 unpublished, line 5) — verified correct, not an error.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose This matches the story's own counting convention elsewhere and should stand as written — no fix needed, noted here only because the brief asked it checked.

7. Hay interval (scene 57 unpublished, line 21) — verified correct.**
   "Carted green in Weedmonth," "eleven weeks" on Day 24 (8 Harvestmonth): 20 Weedmonth (doy 170) to 8 Harvestmonth (doy 248) = 78 days ≈ 11 weeks, matching characters/mattie-ordish.md's "nine weeks at Day 9 → eleven at Day 24" exactly. No error.

8. Muck-row farming practice (scene 57 unpublished) — plausible, not flagged as an error.
Muck carted Plowmonth (≈March), barley drilled Seedmonth (≈April) over unharrowed rows, left unspread by oversight: ordinary mundane neglect, no unmagical-version problem, consistent with the parish-ceiling rule (notes/canon/world/magic.md). No canon conflict.

**9. redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished, line 13) — verified verbatim match.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose 013). Consistent.

10. Stock-fence materials and geometry (scene 56 unpublished) — verified correct.**
    "Cleft chestnut pales on chestnut rails," "ten yards outside the outer arc," "four gates" — all match BACKFILL-ACT2.md's correction (chestnut pale/rails, not wire) and world/silent-soil.md's "arc plus ten yards... four hung gates." No issue.

11. Twenty acres cut outside the fence (scene 57 unpublished, line 17) — verified correct.
31 acres total, ~11 inside the outer arc (characters/mattie-ordish.md), leaving 20 outside — matches exactly.

**12. Cooldown-shortens-only-the-next-cast claim (scene 56 unpublished, line 21) — verified correct.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose for the next cast; the running cooldown cleared at midnight beginning 14 Harvestmonth"). No error.

13. The Weave answer on the middle of the field (scene 56 unpublished, lines 31–39) — verified verbatim.
    redacted sentence: unpublished prose No error.

New facts (from these drafted scenes, pending backfill)

• The chestnut fence was paid for out of Edwin's readings money, and he said nothing about it (scene 56 unpublished).
  redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished).
• Burl and the nephews dug the trench in two days (scene 56 unpublished).
• The younger nephew, present at the level-6 box, holds a class of his own and had never seen it move on anything he could name (scene 56 unpublished).
• Peri's written log entry for the level-up records "the whip, the hour, and the twenty-nine" (scene 56 unpublished).
• Mattie's grey-book entry for the failed prediction: "Wrong for the outer band. It ripened. 8 Harvestmonth, seen by M.O. first. Nine days for three weeks. The three inner bands unchanged. E.M." (scene 57 unpublished).
  redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished).
• The far bay's hatch is described as "chest high, with a locked hatch" (scene 57 unpublished) — new physical detail, no stated value figure (compatible with BACKFILL's "forty pound and better" correction since no figure is given here).
• Mattie's bacon-rind mouse test: put in that afternoon, to be checked on the 14th and not before (scene 57 unpublished).
• Twelve muck rows counted; eleven show the fork's shape unchanged, the twelfth (nearest the arc's edge, west end) went further before stopping (scene 57 unpublished).