You are doing research for a canon-consistency check on the story Aut…
2026-08-30
User:
You are doing research for a canon-consistency check on the story Autoroad, repo redacted.
Read every scene file draft/book-01/scenes/025-.md through draft/book-01/scenes/051-.md (or however they're numbered/named — list draft/book-01/scenes/ first to get exact filenames for numbers 25 through 51) in FULL, in order.
Do NOT read notes/sealed/ — off limits.
As you read, extract and quote (with exact scene number/filename and, where possible, surrounding context) every occurrence of the following. Be exhaustive — these are used for a downstream consistency check against later scenes 52-55, so precision and completeness matter more than brevity:
- Any promise, plan, or arrangement made "at the pantry door" — what was promised, and on which day/date it was made or is due.
- Every reference to "the ninth", "the fifth", or "a fortnight later" (or equivalent phrasings like "in a fortnight", "two weeks from now") — quote the sentence and note which calendar day is implied or stated.
- The oak stakes — who gave them, when, to whom, for what purpose, how many, any other physical detail (size, count, marks).
- "The carrier" — every mention, what/who it refers to, its role.
- Tess's "hundred seconds" — the exact context of this event/phrase, and how many weeks before the point-of-reference it happened (or any date given).
- Scene 51 unpublished specifically: what Mattie says about redacted's field — quote her lines exactly and describe the scene context (who's present, what's being discussed).
- Scenes 44-46 specifically: what the Charter book and the slate showed — quote the relevant passages describing their contents.
Also note any dates/days explicitly stated anywhere in scenes 25-51 (e.g. "the eleventh", "day 40") that might matter for a calendar cross-check, with scene number.
Report back with a clearly organized list under each of the 7 headings above, with exact quotes and scene file names/numbers for every item. This is the only output I will see — be complete, do not summarize away specifics, and do not omit an item because it seems minor.
18 tool calls
🔧 Bash: ls redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/ | sed -n '1,80p'
✅ 55 lines, 1431 chars
🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/ && for f in 25-* 26-* 27-* 28-* 29-* 30-* 31-* 32-* 3…
✅ 35 lines, 2214 chars
🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/ && files=$(ls | awk -F- '{n=$1+0; if(n>=25 && n<=51)…
✅ 27 lines, 723 chars
🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/ && grep -n -i -E "pantry door|ninth|fifth|fortnight|t…
✅ 30 lines, 9163 chars
🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/ && grep -n -i -E "hundred seconds|the ninth|the fifth…
✅ 53 lines, 17835 chars
🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/ && grep -rn -i "hundred" 2[5-9]-*.md 3[0-9]-*.md 4[0-…
✅ 26 lines, 10361 chars
🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/ && for f in 31-the-pantry-door.md 38-twelve-stakes.md…
✅ 29 lines, 2018 chars
🔧 Read redacted: private
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🔧 Read redacted: private
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Now let me read the remaining scenes not yet fully viewed (25-30, 32-37, 39-43, 47-50) to check for anything missed, particularly around pantry-door promises, dates, and other keyword contexts.
🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/ && for f in 39-read-it-as-six.md 42-a-factors-woman.m…
✅ 1 lines, 19 chars
🔧 Read /tmp/x.txt
✅ 309 lines, 26899 chars
Consistency-Check Extraction: Scenes 25–51 (Autoroad, draft/book-01)
1. "At the pantry door" — promises/arrangements
- Scene 31 ("The pantry door"), lines 22–68: The literal pantry door at Mattie Ordish's farm has Mattie's ring measurements written on it in charcoal (see #3 below for full diagram detail). redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose I've a fortnight. redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Referenced back in scene 44 unpublished (line 35, quoted via scene 47 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished, line 150, exact text.)
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished (*"another house's clerk's time... redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Scene 39 explicitly revises the promise from "two weeks" to "six," addressed to Sorrel (not Mattie): *"I said two weeks. redacted sentence: unpublished prose
2. "The ninth" / "the fifth" / "a fortnight later" / equivalents
- No literal "the ninth" or "the fifth" as calendar-day references found in scenes 25–51 (searched exhaustively).
- "Nine" appears as a stake count (nine dated oak stakes — see #3) and in "nine weeks" (hay, hundred-seconds) and "nine pound" (money) — not calendar days.
- Fortnight references (all found):
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Scene 31: Edwin's own "I've a fortnight" promise (see #1).
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Scene 38: alehouse keeper's "You told her a fortnight."
- Scene 40: "it heals over in a fortnight" (re: grass, unrelated to timeline).
- Scene 41 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Scene 48 unpublished: "The third: a fortnight after that" — this is a ripening-band date interval, not a promise (see #6/#7 discussion below — it's part of the four-band dating in scene 48 unpublished).
- "Two weeks": Scene 39 ("I said two weeks. Read it as six...") — to Sorrel, re: frost work. Scene 51 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished body: "The eighth day," she said... "I didn't write it on the road. I wrote it that night at the Sluice"), and scene 51 unpublished states it is now eight days later than that entry per Peri's own line ("it's been eight days"). Flag: title says "two weeks ago" but body math says the entry was made 8 days prior — worth checking whether this is deliberate imprecision (rounding) or an inconsistency for the downstream check.
3. The oak stakes
- Scene 38 ("Twelve stakes"), full detail:
redacted sentence: unpublished prose He said so twice").
- Given to: Edwin/Peri's party, for Mattie's field-monitoring project — collected the day after Edwin wrote "Oak, sound, driven" in Mattie's yard.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose Peri logged letter, time, and chain distance from fixed points (gatepost, thorn stump, water trough, a willow on the ditch).
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted, but "Sennet had said no." Edwin: "Leave K, L and M... redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- This is confirmed again in scene 42 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- However, scene 45 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted" — implying two of the reserved K/L/M stakes (not all three) eventually got placed in Sennet's grass, making eleven total in the protocol description, though only nine were driven as of scene 38/42. Scene 44 unpublished also refers to "eleven stakes" as the ask. This transition from 9 (scene 38, 42) to 11 (scenes 44, 45) is worth flagging for consistency-check — it isn't explicitly shown on-page when/how K or L got driven into Sennet's grass, or whether it's meant to be 9+2=11 despite only "K, L, M" (three) being reserved and only two ending up placed.
- Scene 51 unpublished also references "item four" in the stake-reading protocol relating to answering people in the street (see scene 45 unpublished).
4. "The carrier"
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose Six, more like. redacted sentence: unpublished prose once when he doesn't"), now applied to the Wystow letter's transit. redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- The carrier is otherwise a background logistics element — no named individual, purely a schedule/service reference.
5. Tess's "hundred seconds"
- Scene 32 ("Nobody's going to laugh"), line 39 (context: household gathering after the initial "man with a staff" council scene, Tess speaking from the stairs where she'd been listening):
redacted sentence: unpublished prose "It doesn't... redacted sentence: unpublished prose
This is Tess's own account, given in scene 32, of standing in the ring and counting to 100 (implicitly seconds).
- Scene 50 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
This explicitly dates the event as "nine weeks ago" relative to scene 50 unpublished's point in the story. Scene 50 unpublished occurs on the night before the party leaves for the pale field (redacted's), i.e., the night of scene 51 unpublished's cold open — so "nine weeks ago" is anchored to a point very late in the Fenholt arc (near scene 50 unpublished/51), useful for a calendar cross-check against scene 32's placement (which is early in the Fenholt arc, shortly after the party's arrival and the initial council meeting).
6. Scene 51 unpublished — Mattie's lines about redacted's field
Full context: This is the very end of scene 51 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted's). Present: Edwin, Peri, Mattie (at the range with the kettle). Edwin has just asked Peri to fetch "the pale field" notes and told her they'll go "the day after tomorrow." Mattie, from the range, asks "What pale field?" — and Edwin (from scene 50 unpublished's closing line) has "the pen still in his hand" when asked. Scene 51 unpublished then answers that cold open:
- "redacted's," she said. (line 337)
- "You know it." (Edwin)
- *"Everybody knows it. It's been pale since I was a girl. Old redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
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Note: this is the only appearance of "redacted" across scenes 25–51 — Mattie is the source of all information about him (his age, temperament, the field's history "since I was a girl," and the grazier tenancy).
7. Scenes 44–46 — Charter book and slate contents
Scene 44 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted Wardens named... It had been posted in Seedmonth."
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted postponed from midsummer. A new date to be posted."
redacted sentence: unpublished prose 28th. Nine. redacted sentence: unpublished prose Ten. redacted sentence: unpublished prose Peri's reading: "The days are a week apart. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
Scene 45 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Clerk redacted and journeyman redacted redacted arguing over a roster for the Holm Deep delve muster.
- redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose note under #3 above regarding the 9 vs 11 stake discrepancy.
- redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- redacted reads the roster aloud: "Nineteen names... redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted's draft.)
- redacted writes the date (2nd of Fallowmonth) and muster hour into "the book" under the newly lodged stake protocol.
Scene 46 unpublished ("A list of houses") — the new Holm Deep notice posted (replacing the old one), and redacted's numeric testimony:
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted: "Thirty-three days."
- redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Peri's private notebook entry (not Charter material, but written in this scene, physically in the same beat): a physical description of an unnamed figure under the heading "Adventurer??" — boiled leather rubbed pale at left shoulder, hooded lamp with dented hood and replaced horn panel, fen billhook (four-foot haft, edge bright six inches/dull rest), worn boots, a restitched glove. Peri says "That's her. That's the list."
Other explicit dates/days found, scene by scene (for calendar cross-check)
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Scene 33: *"The twelfth of Seedmonth. redacted sentence: unpublished prose
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Scene 38: stakes dated "25 Cornmonth" (the day the stakes were driven).
- Scene 42 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Scene 43 unpublished**: "28 Cornmonth. Half past nine." (Peri's notebook entry, west-east chain line reading) and "Twenty-three links in five days" (from the previous chain reading).
- **Scene 44 unpublished: clearing notice dated Milkmonth; reciprocity agreement posted "in Seedmonth"; "They're short... redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Scene 45 unpublished**: Holm Deep delve set for "the second of Fallowmonth."
- **Scene 46 unpublished: Holm Deep delve "due the tenth of Haymonth," now reset to "the second of Fallowmonth" = "eleven weeks and five days" / "thirty-three days" off; redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Scene 47 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Scene 48 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Scene 49 unpublished**: no new explicit calendar dates; discusses rate consistency (~yard/day to yard-and-a-bit/week) and centre drift ("about a yard a week," "forty to fifty yards" drift total).
- **Scene 50 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Scene 51 unpublished: "The eighth day" (Peri's original sighting of the pale field, during the outbound journey to Fenholt — recorded that night "at the Sluice"); "it's been eight days" since then (stated in scene 51 unpublished dialogue) vs. redacted sentence: unpublished prose "We go the day after tomorrow. Twelve miles..." "The knot? ... Nothing. Sixteen days and nothing" (a recurring separate thread Peri asks about nightly, now at 16 days with no change).
Flag for downstream check: Scene 51 unpublished's title ("two weeks ago") vs. its own body text ("the eighth day," "it's been eight days," "left off... on the tenth") appears to describe events that are 8–10 days in the past, not 14 — worth confirming this isn't a drift/inconsistency before scenes 52–55 build on it.