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Consistency Audit — Scenes 85–89 (Act Two close)

1. Hard contradictions

Sennet's-grass arithmetic self-contradicts within scene 86 unpublished.
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The actual subtraction: 16 yd 8 in (584 in) → 21 yd 1 ft (768 in) = 184 in = 5 yd 4 in, not "four yards and two feet" (168 in). Edwin's restated sum contradicts both Sennet's line immediately before it and his own "five yards and a bit" one sentence earlier, in a passage explicitly staged as him "not liking the first [sum]" and redoing it for accuracy. Fix: "Five yards and four inches," or drop the redundant second figure.

Seal-of-the-Loom cooldown drifts by one day across the act's class-level chain.
Anchors, all on-page:

• Scene 56 unpublished (Level 6): "Twenty-nine, it says."
• Scene 69 unpublished (Level 7): box noted, no cooldown figure given.
• Scene 78 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
• Scene 87 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose Twenty-seven, for next time."

Two levellings (7→8, 8→9) each claim to shorten the cooldown by a day off a base of 29 (post-Level-6), which arithmetically should land at 27 after three dings (29→28→27→26), but the explicit anchor at Level 9 is still 27 — one ding short. Either scene 87 unpublished's figure should read "Twenty-six," or one of scenes 69/78 needs to state explicitly that its ding did not touch the cooldown (contradicting "a day shorter again" at 78). As written, this is an internal sum error spanning scenes not all in the review set, but the review-set scene (87) is the one carrying the wrong terminal number.

Edwin's biography line breaks the citation it's meant to satisfy.
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2. Deferred questions / binding-list

• No deferred question resolved. Ferrin/robed-man ambiguity preserved correctly (scene 89 unpublished: "I'm not striking him... redacted sentence: unpublished prose
• [Agent of Fate — Level 9.] lands at scene 87 unpublished as required by the per-scene table; note the act-two "Binding on the stretch" prose paragraph in SCENES.md itself says "9 (scene 85 unpublished)," which conflicts with its own per-scene table (scene 87 unpublished) and with the task's own instruction (scene 87 unpublished). This is a pre-existing internal inconsistency in SCENES.md, not something scenes 85–89 introduced — flagging so it gets cleaned up, not attributing fault to the draft.
• Fate Magic correctly stays unmentioned/unmoved (still 2) across 85–89.
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• Knot lines: consistent format and values, see §3 below for one soft timing question.

3. Day/date errors

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• Day 42 = 26 Harvestmonth ✓ (scene 85 unpublished's rider "on the twenty-sixth"; knot "Forty-two days")
• Day 44 = 28 Harvestmonth ✓ (scene 86 unpublished's survey day)
• Day 46 = 30 Harvestmonth ✓
• Day 50 = 4 Fallowmonth ✓ (implicit, not contradicted)

Soft flag, low confidence: scene 87 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose Scene 88 unpublished opens "Peri collected the debt that evening" and logs the knot as "46 d." If 88's "that evening" is meant as the same evening as 87, the knot figure should read 45, not 46. If a day quietly passed between the two scenes (plausible — SCENES.md gives scene 87 unpublished the range "45–46"), there's no error, but nothing in scene 88 unpublished's text signals the day-turn. Recommend an explicit anchor ("the next evening") if a day is meant to pass.

4. Sums/counts/distances

• Stump line 9 ch 73 unpublished (29 Cornmonth, off-page/prior) → 10 ch 84 unpublished/86 (24 Harvestmonth) → 11 ch 03/05 (28 Harvestmonth): scene 86 unpublished quotes the canon figures verbatim; correct.
• West–east line 6 ch 18 → projected 7 ch 54 unpublished → actual 7 ch 21, "seven yards short": arithmetic checks (721 links vs. projected 754 links ≈ 7.3 yd short) — correct.
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• Seal cooldown 29 (Lv6) → 27 (Lv9) over three level-ups: see §1 — one day short of the stated decrement pattern.
• Day-count for "thirty-two days" (26 Cornmonth stake-driving → 28 Harvestmonth reading): Day 12 → Day 44 = 32 days. Correct.
• "Thirty days" used for the west–east line's 29 Cornmonth → 28 Harvestmonth span (Day 15 → Day 44 = 29 days, not 30): this figure is pre-existing canon text reproduced verbatim by the scene, not a new error introduced by 85–89; flagged for awareness only, not attributed to this draft.

5. New facts established by scenes 85–89 (not yet in canon)

redacted sentence: unpublished prose New correspondence thread, not previously on page.
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• [Wayfaring] explicitly stated to have "stopped at eleven" before the Level 12 box in scene 30 — fills a previously implicit gap with a hard number.
• Edwin's confession about [Letters], leaned on at nine, and the three unnamed misspelled words persisting to this day — new biographical material, consistent with the fill-in-method mechanic but a new specific anecdote.
• Mattie's third worm station reasoning dramatized on-page in scene 87 unpublished (canon already had the fact "M.O. redacted sentence: unpublished prose
• Sennet's stake N: on-page dramatization of "driven himself before dinner," Tess burning the letter into it — canon had the fact, not the scene.
• The jar of damsons from Mattie, in Edwin's pack for the road — new, minor, unflagged elsewhere.
• Ferrin's "second kind of fear" — the ordinary fear on the lantern lane during redacted night — is now given on the page in scene 89 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose