2026-08-29
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You are a canon/consistency lens for the novel at redacted. Read CLAUDE.md first and obey it; do not read notes/sealed/.
Your material: draft/book-01/scenes/12-thats-a-yes-then.md, read after scenes 01–11 in the same directory (Day 4; note the dispute about "the nineteenth" — a weather day, dry for Marsh Barton — is a SEPARATE matter from the standing ford feud about market-day precedence).
redacted sentence: unpublished prose Also chapters/003-the-improbability-engine.md, the groundwork this restages.
Report FINDINGS ONLY — line quoted, canon file and line, what is wrong. No "clean" verdicts. Briefly and separately: canon the scene could use and does not. Do not edit. Do not commit. Your final message is the report.
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1. The audit's "ten o'clock" item does not match established canon, and if it refers to the Day-6 full miss, it is chronologically premature.
Scene line 33: "Item: the ten o'clock, which had run late once in eleven years and then run to ten past the next day, on its own."
notes/canon/characters/minor.md (Dob entry, lines ~16-24) establishes exactly two ten-o'clock incidents, and only two: Goodman Moss late (4 min). redacted sentence: unpublished prose There is no canon event of the class "running itself to ten past... on its own." If the line is gesturing at the Day-6 miss, that event has not happened yet: notes/canon/world/timeline.md places this scene on Day 4 (18 Cornmonth) and the full miss on Day 6 (20 Cornmonth) — two days in the future from the scene's own vantage point. An audit taken on Day 4 cannot already contain a Day 6 event. As written the line is either an invented third incident with no citation, or a timeline violation.
2. No other facts in the audit, the ford split, or the winch passage contradict canon — but flag one thing to verify against intent rather than canon: the scene tells the Marsh Barton chairman "Your nineteenth is dry" as an aside immediately after settling the (separate) market-day ford split. This is not a conflation of the two feuds — it correctly treats them as separate matters, per your instruction — and it correctly reports Edwin's actual ruling from draft/book-01/scenes/10-more-work-than-the-day-needed.md ("told them the nineteenth would be dry"). Flagging only because the juxtaposition (ford ruling, then weather ruling, both to the same man, in the same beat) reads like it could be mistaken for one dispute by a reader who hasn't seen scenes 01/10 — worth an editorial eye, not a canon violation.
minor.md) is established and available but omitted here — the scene shows the repair quality but not the village's independent confirmation of it, which was part of how the village came to trust Peri.minor.md's Marsh Barton chairman entry ("comfortable") is honored in tone but the scene doesn't use his one other established trait beyond "comfortable" — there isn't much more on him, so this is low-value.