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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 35 is Day 10's afternoon: the six revealings cast controls-first, the quickening census nought in every kind at every inside station (eleven castings), the worm spits, the mole runs (nine turnings, forty feet short), the centre sample cut with the broad trowel at one o'clock, and Ferrin's one not-a-fact at the gate. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose There's nothing in it to ask" — the scene reworded it: is the substance preserved without contradicting his file; "No I can't say" construction); the count of nulls ("thirteen times in his presence, twelve of them today" — check that arithmetic against the scene's own eleven castings, two of them controls, and the vale's earlier castings on the block in scenes 17–18 if cited); the box knowledge state (the kitchen was told of the box in scene 32 — fine); whether anything says the ground is dead, confirms harm/safety, or links sites/charms (forbidden); forbidden names; the act-two binding list ("the sample block's smell is mineral and nothing over it" — not touched here; "nobody says 'one spell, one shed'").

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 notes/canon/characters/ferrin.md

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Findings (facts only):

  1. "He had been there since five, and it was past six in the evening now... the man had stood thirteen hours for it."
    redacted sentence: unpublished prose 010)." Thirteen hours is more than double the established figure for this same field-walk. Minimal replacement preserving the sentence's reason (that he stood a long time and earned a plain report): change "past six in the evening" / "thirteen hours" to a time consistent with a six-hour stand, e.g. "it was past eleven in the morning now... the man had stood six hours for it."

  2. "He re-cast the sixth at the centre twice... it had now happened thirteen times in his presence, twelve of them today."
    redacted sentence: unpublished prose today." Thirteen total is consistent with eleven today plus two prior occurrences (the Wystow sample block, ch. 005, and the earlier Fenholt "nought in every kind" reading, draft scenes 17–18) — so the fix is internal, not a canon change. Minimal replacement: "twelve of them today" → "eleven of them today."

  3. "Every station inside the outer edge came back nought in every kind, band and between-band alike, the whole eleven acres of the enclosure..."
    redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose 010)." Canon commits to normal (non-null) ground between the arcs; the scene commits to null readings there too, which is a reading canon does not support and appears to be exactly the gap the check was asked to flag. Minimal replacement preserving the sentence's reason (that the null result was total and shocking): "Every station inside the outer edge came back nought in every kind, band after band, the whole eleven acres inside the outermost arc, under the best barley in the parish" — i.e. drop the explicit "between-band" claim rather than assert a reading canon forbids.

  4. Astride-casting of the quickening assay (the sharp, no-gradient two-figure fact) is not used in this scene — uncontradicted, uncited. The scene's boundary/edge work is done separately by hand-bracketing and chain (scene 34), so the omission here is not a gap against canon; astride-casting belongs to edge-finding, not the interior census sweep this scene performs.

  5. Ferrin's not-a-fact — "I've blessed six hundred fields... There is nothing the matter with that field. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose There's nothing in it to ask"). No contradiction; uncontradicted, uncited paraphrase.

  6. "No I can't say" — matches ferrin.md's rule 6b construction verbatim. No issue.

  7. Mole runs ("forty feet short," "nine turnings") — matches silent-soil.md exactly. No issue.

  8. Six revealings order and authorship (salts, water/air, blight, taint, exhaustion, quickening; Edwin's own for 3–6) — matches magic.md exactly, including the null case's marl-scandal design and "never meant to happen." No issue.

  9. Centre sample cut with the broad trowel at one o'clock, boxed against a headland control — consistent with edwin.md (broad trowel = cleanest turf lift) and the task's stated Day 10 13:00 timing. No issue.

  10. Worm results ("none inside, no dead ones, ordinary crowd two spits beyond the edge") — consistent with established "no worms and no dead worms... redacted sentence: unpublished prose

  11. No statement in the scene confirms the ground is dead, confirms harm or safety, or links the field to Holm Deep or any other site/charm. No forbidden content found.

  12. No occurrence of "one spell, one shed" or "the sample block's smell is mineral" in this scene — both correctly untouched per the act-two binding list.