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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 36 is Day 10's evening, the Ordish kitchen: Peri's working case and Edwin's patient case argued from foundations, the two-page-plus-middle ruling made, the day filed (everything lands in the middle), and the what-this-wants-next list written, stopping at five and a half because item six is Sennet's grass. Check: Peri's case's facts (the birds at Ranner's Sluice — she saw that on Day 8 and it is in her book: fine; "every living thing in the ground is gone without one body left behind" — matches canon's no-worms-no-dead-worms; "rings are a shape, and shapes get drawn" — hers to argue); Edwin's counter (moulds growing in circles, fairy rings rounder than these — check against real-world fact and the farming-glossary's fairy-ring entry if present; a rash stopping at a line — is a sharp-edged rash real; flag anything a farming-check would dispute); whether the middle-column design matches canon (the two-column ruling with a crowded middle — silent-soil.md; the scene renders it as three headed pages: acceptable evolution or contradiction?); the list against canon's ch. redacted sentence: unpublished prose

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 draft/book-01/scenes/36-write-both.md

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🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/peri.md

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🔧 Read notes/canon/world/silent-soil.md

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FINDINGS — Scene 36 ("Write both")

  1. List item missing: Marsh's engineers. notes/canon/world/silent-soil.md ("Established — the Ordish top field") states the ch. redacted sentence: unpublished prose There is no item corresponding to telling Marsh's engineers directly. Canon states this was on the list; the scene has dropped it.
    Minimal fix preserving Edwin's reasoning: insert a fifth item (renumbering the Wystow-copy item to six, Sennet to seven) — "Five: the Marsh engineers told the same day as Wystow, off the same sheet, because a man who hears a number from a stranger before he hears it from the person who found it stops trusting either of you." Or, if the Marsh site's existence is not yet plot-live at Day 10 in the third draft (Marsh's business first appears via letters, chs. 19+ in canon), this may be a superseded groundwork item rather than a live omission — flag for author decision rather than auto-restore.

  2. redacted sentence: unpublished prose 008)." Consistent.

  3. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose 009/010). Consistent.

  4. "rings are a shape, and shapes get drawn." Peri's own argument, not a canon fact claim. Uncontradicted, uncited — fine as rhetoric.

  5. Edwin's fairy-ring/mould counter. "a lawn fungus that draws fairy rings a great deal rounder than these" is consistent with farming-glossary.md's Fairy rings entry (outward-growing turf fungus, round rings, some centuries old). "Three moulds that grow outward in circles" — uncontradicted, uncited (no such three named anywhere), but not disputed by any real-world fact on file.

  6. redacted sentence Uncontradicted, uncited.

  7. Middle-column/three-page design. silent-soil.md calls it "the ch. redacted sentence: unpublished prose 013). The scene's three headed pages (working / patient / middle) is consistent with a two-hypothesis-plus-middle structure already implied by canon, not a contradiction — though canon's own shorthand phrase "two-column" undercounts it. No fix needed; flagging only because the check asked.

  8. List items 1–5 vs. redacted sentence: unpublished prose West-east second line between two new fixed marks (item 2) — matches. Oak stakes, cut thick, lettered and dated (item 3) — matches "twelve dated oak stakes" (count not stated here, fine, since the twelve-stake detail is established later in ch. 011, not yet due). Worm counts at fixed, edge, and control stations (item 4) — matches. redacted sentence: unpublished prose

  9. "The people who own the other field." Does not name Wystow in front of the household — consistent with the instruction that scene 32 licensed only "another field fifty miles off" without naming the college. (Scene 32 itself not in the read set for this check; taking the brief's framing as given.)

  10. Mattie's "Twelfth entry says so." Matches: mattie-ordish.md establishes "eleven entries" on the pantry door as of ch. 009/010, before today's chain run (scene 34) is added — making today's the twelfth. Consistent.

  11. Tess's "Mother said he'll say no." Consistent with Mattie's own line in scene 34 ("He'll say no," said Mattie) and Tess's established bluntness; uncontradicted, uncited beyond that.

  12. redacted sentence: unpublished prose

  13. No confirmation of harm/safety, no "the ground is dead," no site/charm connection, no forbidden names. Checked — none appear. Compliant with the act-two binding list and the silent-soil sealed-question constraints.

  14. redacted sentence: unpublished prose Consistent.

No other contradictions found.