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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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Scene 26 is Day 7 afternoon, on the fen causeway east of the Ashway bridge: the first lesson. Edwin agrees to teach Peri farm magic (per DRMacIver's direction), terms are set both ways, and the mana-ceiling mechanism is explained. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted] as a class ability with a cooldown drawing her mana; skills learnable cross-class with less help); whether "one question a day" matches Peri's established ability; whether the compost cantrip needing a muck heap and the first cast waiting for Fenholt matches SCENES.md's binding (her cantrip box lands at scene 41 unpublished, Fenholt) and farm-teaching.md; whether Edwin's biographical claims (three hundred years teaching, thousands of farmwives, what he knows of fate magic — met two bearers, can see it, knows nothing else) match edwin.md; whether anything violates the bargain ruling (Edwin's authority over Peri: student on ground he understands, told why afterwards if urgent, no say on the road or the quest, her terms back); whether anything states a forbidden name (realm, god, weekday, "six counties" as reach, lifespan guarantee, Edwin's class name) or resolves a canon Open question; knowledge states (what Peri has been told on the page by scene 26; what the man on the coach told her in scene 02).

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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Findings — canon-consistency check, scene 26

  1. Quoted: "Mine got the Pellings. Ten parishes of them, wanting rain at half past twelve and frost warnings and forty other things, every day, for three hundred years."
    redacted sentence: unpublished prose Scene 02 itself keeps the two separate: Edwin cites the Pellings alone as his reason for the large pool ("I've had a reason every day for three hundred years. It's called the Pellings") without folding in the ten-parish count. Scene 26's line conflates "the Pellings" with "ten parishes of them," attributing the vale-wide parish count to one farm.
    Minimal replacement, preserving the reason: "Mine got the vale. redacted sentence: unpublished prose

  2. Quoted: "Your road, your quest, your fate magic, your columns: not mine."
    redacted sentence 009)"; SCENES.md scene 36 "write both" at Day 10). Scene 26 is Day 7 — two days before Peri's columns exist as a practice. Edwin referring to "your columns" as an already-known feature of her method is a forward reference the knowledge state doesn't support yet.
    Minimal replacement: drop the anachronistic item — "Your road, your quest, your fate magic, your notebook: not mine." (or substitute another already-established Peri practice, e.g. "your file").

  3. Quoted: "you are already the most practised person at it that I could reach by letter."
    Uncontradicted, uncited — no canon file states or denies this claim about Edwin's correspondence reach for fate-magic practitioners; consistent with his established isolation and the Concord ruling (edwin.md: correspondence-only relationship to fate-magic-adjacent institutions), but not itself established. Move on.

  4. Quoted: "I've never in my life said you'll understand later to a student."
    Uncontradicted, uncited.

  5. Windpump as "the first Peri had ever seen," three miles past the bridge.
    Uncontradicted, uncited — geography.md places windpumps generally "in the last stretch" toward Saltings Corner but doesn't preclude one appearing three miles past the bridge; fen begins "~2–3 miles past the bridge" per the same file, so the causeway/reeds/standing-water description at "three miles past the bridge" is consistent.

  6. Everything else checked clean against canon and binding lists: