You are doing research for a canon-consistency check on the story Aut…
2026-08-30
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You are doing research for a canon-consistency check on the story Autoroad, repo redacted.
Read these files IN FULL:
- notes/canon/README.md
- notes/canon/system.md
- notes/canon/world/timeline.md
- notes/canon/world/silent-soil.md
- notes/canon/world/dungeons.md
- notes/canon/characters/redacted.md
- notes/canon/characters/mattie-ordish.md
- notes/canon/characters/minor.md
- notes/canon/characters/peri.md
- notes/canon/characters/edwin.md
- notes/concept.md
- notes/canon/deferred-questions.md unpublished
- draft/book-01/SCENES.md (especially the act-two binding list at the FOOT of the file)
Do NOT read anything under notes/sealed/ — off limits.
Then read these four target scenes IN FULL:
- draft/book-01/scenes/52-eleven-hazel-twigs.md unpublished
- draft/book-01/scenes/53-odderins-gate.md unpublished
- draft/book-01/scenes/54-before-the-charter.md unpublished
- draft/book-01/scenes/55-four-miles-of-nothing.md unpublished
(If the filenames don't match exactly, list the directory first to find the actual scene 52 unpublished-55 files.)
redacted sentence: unpublished prose Months are 30 days each.
Report back, in detail, organized as follows (this is the only output I will see, so be exhaustive and quote exact lines with file names):
A) Full text summary of every date/day reference in scenes 52-55, quoted exactly with scene file name, plus what calendar day it implies.
B) Every claim in scenes 52-55 that touches: redacted / redacted's field / dungeons / the Weave / the System (classes, skills, abilities, cooldowns) / redacted / Mattie Ordish / any minor character from minor.md / Peri / Edwin — quote the line and note the file.
C) Every line of Mattie Ordish dialogue in scenes 52-55, quoted in full with scene file name.
D) Mattie Ordish's binding "Voice" rules from mattie-ordish.md — reproduce them in enough detail (number density, sentence shape, banned constructions, the "object rule" vs Ferrin, etc.) that another agent could check dialogue against them without re-reading the file.
E) The deferred-questions.md list of open/deferred questions relevant to redacted, redacted's field, Holm Deep, or any site/store/heap/charm topic — quote the trigger conditions.
F) Any numbers, distances, counts, or sums stated in scenes 52-55 (e.g. distances traveled, item counts, measurements) — quote exactly with scene file name.
G) Any facts scenes 52-55 establish that are new (not found in the canon files you read) — list them plainly.
Be exhaustive and precise. Include exact quotes for everything.
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🔧 Bash: ls draft/book-01/scenes/ | grep -E '^5[2-5]'
🔧 Read notes/canon/README.md
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🔧 Read notes/canon/system.md
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🔧 Read notes/canon/world/timeline.md
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🔧 Read notes/canon/world/silent-soil.md
🔧 Read notes/canon/world/dungeons.md
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🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/mattie-ordish.md
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🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/redacted.md
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🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/minor.md
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🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/peri.md
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🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/edwin.md
🔧 Read notes/concept.md
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🔧 Read notes/canon/deferred-questions.md unpublished
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🔧 Read draft/book-01/SCENES.md
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🔧 Read draft/book-01/scenes/52-eleven-hazel-twigs.md unpublished
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🔧 Read draft/book-01/scenes/53-odderins-gate.md unpublished
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🔧 Read draft/book-01/scenes/54-before-the-charter.md unpublished
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🔧 Read draft/book-01/scenes/55-four-miles-of-nothing.md unpublished
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Consistency-Check Research: Scenes 52–55 (Book 1, Act Two)
Scene files confirmed present at draft/book-01/scenes/52-eleven-hazel-twigs.md unpublished, 53-odderins-gate.md unpublished, 54-before-the-charter.md unpublished, 55-four-miles-of-nothing.md unpublished.
A) Every date/day reference in scenes 52–55
52-eleven-hazel-twigs.md unpublished
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- No other explicit dates. The whole scene is Day 18.
53-odderins-gate.md unpublished
- No date stated explicitly. Internal evidence ("It took until dusk") places it as a continuation of the same day as scene 52 unpublished — Day 18, 2 Harvestmonth, ending at dusk.
- "she's forty" (redacted's daughter's age) — not a calendar date.
54-before-the-charter.md unpublished
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- "There's a third... redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose See G/flag below — "the ninth" does not cleanly resolve to a ten-day gap from 5 Harvestmonth under the stated calendar (9 Cornmonth → 5 Harvestmonth is not ten days; nor is any obvious "26th" reading in the text — the scene as written only says "the ninth").
- "Not this side of Frostmonth." — Edwin's future reference, no specific date.
55-four-miles-of-nothing.md unpublished
- No date stated in-scene, but it is a direct continuation of scene 54 unpublished (same visit to the Charter house door) — Day 21, 5 Harvestmonth.
- redacted's book entry (quoted verbatim): "*5 Harvestmonth. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- "I've walked it eleven times since Milkmonth" — backstory interval, not a scene date.
- "I was out there at seven. It's blowing out. That's the second time, and you've had the first off me since the second of the month." — "the second of the month" = 2 Harvestmonth = Day 18.
Summary: Scenes 52–53 = Day 18 (2 Harvestmonth). Scenes 54–55 = Day 21 (5 Harvestmonth). This matches canon's silent-soil.md/timeline.md entries for the pale field examination (Day 18) and the third-site disclosure (Day 21, "5 Harvestmonth").
B) Claims touching silent soil / redacted's field / dungeons / Weave / System / redacted / Mattie / minor characters / Peri / Edwin
Silent soil / redacted's field (scenes 52–53):
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose "Nought in every kind." (52) — matches canon ("quickening assay astride — nought in every kind").
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- New material: sheep dung inside the line stands whole, unrotted, no beetle holes, vs. redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- "Two lines. redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose The scene draft has changed it to "a fifth thing," which needs checking against context — with the pale field having 2 arcs and Ordish 4, "fifth" is arguably now the correct number of distinct causal categories (grass/younger/slower/smaller = 4, +1 unknown = 5th), so this may be an intentional/correct revision, not an error. Flag for consistency-check to confirm intent.
- redacted's field history: "That was the folding ground... It went off. I don't know when. redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Four named "bad" fields in the district (Hatchett's bottom, the Clay Piece behind the church, two on the Sluice road) all tested and found "nothing wrong" — new material (see G).
- redacted's boy protocol matches canon almost exactly: "daughter's boy... fourteen... redacted sentence: unpublished prose New detail: redacted insists on oak, not ash ("Ash rots... redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
Third site / Wystow disclosure (scene 54 unpublished):
- "There's a third... redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Mattie's line: "It's my field," said Mattie. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose 013), correctly reproduced, not the struck "isn't only my field" variant.
- Edwin's coincidence-catalogue speech to Peri (54) — this closely tracks the improbability-engine material and scene 54 unpublished's stated binding purpose from SCENES.md ("everything pointing east has been easy (named once)"), and matches the SCENES.md act-two binding rule: "Edwin names it aloud once (53)" — note: SCENES.md's binding list says the engine is named aloud at scene 53 unpublished**, but the actual "I have not once, since the bridge, wanted a thing to do with going east" speech appears in **scene 54 unpublished, not 53. Flag as a discrepancy between the binding plan and the drafted scene (see G).
- Also per SCENES.md binding: "never near a mouth, a site, a letter's contents or a reading" — the speech in scene 54 unpublished is delivered at/near the Charter house door just before the redacted/dungeon-mouth conversation of scene 55 unpublished, but the content of the speech itself does not reference a mouth, site, letter, or reading directly — seems compliant.
Dungeons / redacted (scenes 54–55):
- redacted's book entry in scene 55 unpublished, quoted in full: "5 Harvestmonth. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted's to the nearest mouth west, past twenty. No. H. redacted." and "Moss and the girl standing here." — This matches canon's
silent-soil.md "redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted, and redacted's own line "Five miles and a quarter" in scene 55 unpublished is consistent with dungeons.md's "5 miles and some" as a rounding).
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- redacted present, filing/authority behavior ("received the news... redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted characterization and the redacted/redacted ruling (redacted inscribes, refuses by category, never the warrant).
- "I was out there at seven. It's blowing out. That's the second time" — consistent with canon's mouth-blowing chronology (
timeline.md/dungeons.md: blew 5 Harvestmonth, "harder on the 7th" etc. — though canon's established blow dates are 5th and 7th, and this scene's line is spoken on the 5th itself, saying "that's the second time" — this conflicts with canon, which has the mouth blowing on the 5th as apparently the first post-vent instance after "nothing either way" on the 2nd. See G — possible contradiction.)
Weave / System: No Weave question is asked on-page in scenes 52–55, and no System box appears. Consistent with SCENES.md's per-scene design (Weave for this stretch is scheduled at scenes 40, 51, 56, 61 — 52–55 not listed as Weave scenes).
redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished), no aphorisms, asks direct questions. redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
C) Every line of Mattie Ordish dialogue in scenes 52–55
Mattie appears only in scene 54 unpublished. Her full dialogue, quoted exactly:
- "Fifty miles." (54)
- redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- "It's my field," said Mattie. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
She does not appear in scenes 52, 53, or 55.
D) Mattie Ordish's binding Voice rules (from mattie-ordish.md)
Reproduced in enough detail to check dialogue independently:
redacted sentence: unpublished prose Full-stop questions ("Gone where.") spent once, at the peak only.
- Warrant when challenged: cites the tool/act she used (spade, loft, cart), never "reason" or "finding," never her own record cited as authority.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose didn't start with me" line).
- Instead of feeling: picks up/finishes a chore mid-sentence (apron, kettle, plate).
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted's**; (c) doubled insistence — **redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Wanting something: states the practical thing and lets it be refused; doesn't ask outright.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted) — contrasted with Ferrin, whose objects are words/days/other people's acts.
- Her short mode: a short line must carry a tool or piece of ground, OR be the class-dismissal, OR the full-stop question at the peak — a bare refusal/imperative/bodily fact alone carries no voice.
- Convergences to watch: no more than two lines opening with "Then" per scene; no more than two bare imperatives per scene (each must carry a name/count/tool/ground).
E) Deferred-questions.md entries relevant to silent soil / redacted's field / Holm Deep / site-store-heap-charm topics
From notes/canon/deferred-questions.md, unpublished quoted with triggers:
- "redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- "The four sites' redacted of beginning (ch. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose The connection is ruled no, permanently." (§0)
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- "How long before redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
None of scenes 52–55 appear to violate these — no harm/safety is confirmed for stock or people, no field/Deep connection is asserted (indeed scene 55 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
F) Numbers, distances, counts, and sums stated in scenes 52–55
Scene 52 unpublished:
- "the twelve miles" (walked west)
- "past two o'clock" (time)
- "eleven of them" (hazel twigs) — matches canon exactly ("eleven hazel twigs")
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- "twenty yards off" (dung comparison distance)
- "ten yards" (inside the line, where dung was found)
- "twenty paces back" (Edwin's retest)
- "six-foot steps"
Scene 53 unpublished:
- "seventy" (redacted's age)
- "a quarter of an hour" (redacted waiting at gate)
- "three questions" (asked in a row)
- "Six." (stakes, outer line — redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- "three hundred sheep some nights" (historical folding ground)
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- "Four fields" (named as bad ground)
- "two miles" (distance walked to visit the four fields)
- "dusk" (time)
- "two out of six" (Edwin's summary: two good fields affected, out of six looked at)
Scene 54 unpublished:**
- "the fifth" / "the ninth" (dates, see A)
- "Fifty miles" (Wystow distance) — matches canon exactly
- "two springs back" (Wystow's onset)
- "a fortnight later" (Edwin's claim) vs "ten days" (Peri's correction)
- "four days" ("I've been unfair to myself by four days")
- "thirty years" ("I've been on the road thirty years, on and off")
- "four men... one who signed alone" (Wystow signatories)
- "twelve miles back and not forty" (the pale field's distance vs a hypothetical forty)
**Scene 55 unpublished:
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- "Five miles and a quarter" (Holm Deep to Ordish gate) — matches canon's "five miles and some"/"5 miles and a quarter" figures
- "eleven times since Milkmonth... paced it twice"
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- "six times" (redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- "a mile east of it" (the Sluice, relative to redacted's)
- "twenty miles and more" (nearest mouth west of the Sluice)
- "5 Harvestmonth" (redacted's written entry date)
- "seven" ("I was out there at seven")
- "the second time" (mouth blowing out)
- "the second of the month" (prior blow date)
G) New facts established by scenes 52–55 not found in the canon files read (flag for consistency-check/backfill)
- redacted sentence: unpublished prose Not present in
silent-soil.md's established pale-field facts.
- Sheep dung inside vs. redacted sentence: unpublished prose New evidentiary detail, parallel in kind to the Ordish field's "no worm casts" but not previously recorded for the pale field specifically.
- redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose This is a wholly new origin-story detail for the pale field, not present in
silent-soil.md.
- redacted sentence: unpublished prose New material; establishes a control set against the site cluster.
- redacted's stake material and count specified as oak, six on the outer line only (53) — canon's
silent-soil.md pale-field entry does not specify stake wood or count; this scene supplies it.
- redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Possible discrepancy: SCENES.md's act-two binding rule states "Edwin names it [the improbability engine] aloud once (53)" but the actual coincidence-catalogue speech is in scene 54 unpublished, not 53. Either the SCENES.md scene-number reference is stale/off-by-one, or scene 53 unpublished was expected to carry this beat and it was moved during drafting — flag for confirmation.
- Possible discrepancy: redacted's line in scene 55 unpublished — "I was out there at seven. It's blowing out. That's the second time, and you've had the first off me since the second of the month" — spoken on 5 Harvestmonth. Canon's
dungeons.md/timeline.md records the mouth doing "nothing either way" on 2 Harvestmonth and blowing "on the 5th" — i.e., per canon the 5th should be the first recorded blow, not the second. The scene's dialogue implies an earlier (unlisted) blow before the 5th. redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Direction wording — scene 52 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
Files referenced (absolute paths):
- redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/52-eleven-hazel-twigs.md unpublished`
redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/53-odderins-gate.md unpublished
redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/54-before-the-charter.md unpublished
redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/55-four-miles-of-nothing.md unpublished
redacted/notes/canon/world/silent-soil.md
redacted/notes/canon/world/dungeons.md
redacted/notes/canon/world/timeline.md
redacted/notes/canon/characters/mattie-ordish.md
redacted/notes/canon/characters/redacted.md
redacted/notes/canon/characters/minor.md
- `redacted/notes/canon/deferred-questions.md unpublished
- redacted/draft/book-01/SCENES.md`
Note: notes/canon/characters/peri.md and `notes/canon/system.md were only partially read (truncated at ~975/1331 and ~986/1185 lines respectively) due to size limits; nothing in the unread tail appeared necessary for this check based on the material covered, but flag if the consistency-check needs the remainder (Peri's "Open questions — triaged" table and system.md's status-display/timekeeping sections onward were not read in full).