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Consistency Check: Scenes 56–62 (Book 1, Act Two)

(1) Hard contradictions with Established/Working canon or scenes 25–55

The Seal of the Loom cooldown — scene 56 unpublished.
Scene 56 unpublished: "'Six,' she said. 'Agent of Fate. Six.'... 'The Seal's a day shorter. Twenty-seven.'" This is Day 24 (third afternoon of the four-day containment that starts Day 22).

redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose 029), computed from Day 30, after she has reached class level 26 — proof the cooldown never moved with leveling. Scene 56 unpublished's implication that hitting level 6 on Day 24 knocked the remaining count down to 27 (which would return it around Day 51, not Day 30) breaks this. It also sets up a direct in-book contradiction if a later scene in this same stretch (per SCENES.md, scene 66 unpublished, Day 29–30) still uses the established "Thirty days at midnight" line, or if timeline.md's Day 30 return stands unmoved.

Suggested fix: cut the "Twenty-seven" line, or reframe the level-6 box as changing only the base cooldown for a future cast, explicitly not the running one, and say so on the page.

Weave answer on the Ordish field dated a day early — scene 56 unpublished.
Scene 56 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose 013 text (silent-soil.md: "The Weave on the field (ch. 013, 8 Harvestmonth, noon...)"). Scene 56 unpublished places it on "the fourth day" of a containment period that began Day 22 (6 Harvestmonth) — i.e., Day 25 (9 Harvestmonth), not 8 Harvestmonth. This is a one-day date mismatch against the Established date for this exact exchange.

Suggested fix: move the Weave beat to the third day (Day 24 = 8 Harvestmonth) to match the pinned date, or explicitly re-date the established citation if the rewrite intends to move it.

"He had been in the parish three weeks" — scene 57 unpublished.
Scene 57 unpublished is dated Day 24 (8 Harvestmonth; SCENES.md confirms). Edwin arrived in Fenholt Day 9 (23 Cornmonth). 24 − 9 = 15 days (≈ 2 weeks), not three. This directly conflicts with the on-page, Established anchor two days later: timeline.md, Day 26 (10 Harvestmonth) — "Seventeen days in the village" (ch. 014). Fifteen days at Day 24 and seventeen at Day 26 agree with each other; "three weeks" at Day 24 does not.

Suggested fix: change "three weeks" to "a fortnight" or "sixteen days."

(2) Deferred questions resolved casually / SCENES.md act-two binding violated

The [Holm Deep.] chain box is never shown — scene 59 unpublished. SCENES.md's own binding list for this stretch requires: "[Holm Deep.] at the chain" and scene 59 unpublished's row explicitly plans "[Holm Deep.] said as routine" as part of its engine. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose In the actual draft, redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose This is a binding item the scene was supposed to deliver and doesn't.

Weave touching a site's evidence — scene 56 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose Site A, the silent-soil field — which is exactly what this rule forbids. (This may be an intentional reuse of the already-Established ch. 013 exchange rather than a new violation, but as drafted it sits in direct tension with the rule stated two paragraphs above it in the same document.)

No sealed/deferred-questions.md entries appear to be resolved casually in these seven scenes; the Deep-origin evidence (dressed stone, drain, redacted) is confined to scenes outside this range, and scenes 56–62 keep to the permitted evidence types (slate, candle, air, causeway sign, redacted) without explaining any of it — that binding item is honored.

(3) Day/date/calendar errors

• Scene 56 unpublished**: Weave answer dated to the field's Day-24/8-Harvestmonth Established event but placed on "the fourth day" = Day 25/9 Harvestmonth (see §1).
• **Scene 57 unpublished: "three weeks" in the parish at Day 24 should be ~2 weeks (see §1).
• All other date arithmetic checked out cleanly and in several places is unusually well-executed: scene 59 unpublished's slate readings (28th/2nd/5th/7th/10th, all "In"/"Out" values) match dungeons.md exactly; "twelve days since it drew" at Day 26 (doy 250 − 238 = 12) is exact; scene 61 unpublished's post-timing arithmetic (10 Harvestmonth → 18th Harvestmonth for a Wystow answer; → 2 Fallowmonth muster = 22 days) is exactly right (doy 272 − 250 = 22); scene 57 unpublished's "eleventh of Cornmonth" outer-band date and scene 38's "25 Cornmonth" stake dating both match Established figures precisely.

(4) Sums, counts, quantities

• Leakage counts (scene 61 unpublished) vs. scene 46 unpublished: "Weedmonth... four... Haymonth, seven. Cornmonth, nineteen... redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished and Established canon (dungeons.md) exactly.
• Roster (scene 61 unpublished) vs. scene 45 unpublished: "Nineteen. Four dead or gone... Three over sixty... redacted sentence: unpublished prose Six. Nine wanted for a delve" — matches scene 45 unpublished's roster reading word for word (nineteen names; four dead/gone not struck; three over sixty; ten rostered less three eastern-hired and one bad leg = six; nine wanted).
• Hay-loft arithmetic (scenes 57/58): "the twentieth of Weedmonth" as redacted date is internally consistent: at Day 24 that is exactly eleven weeks (77 days), and it would read as roughly nine weeks at the original Day-11 anchor from ch. 011 — both check out cleanly. No contradiction found; this is a new fixed date candidate (see §5).
• "Twelve days since it drew" (scene 59 unpublished)** and the five-line slate: all consistent with dungeons.md's figures, as noted above.
• No other quantity mismatches found in scenes 56–62 against 25–55 or canon.

(5) New facts established, candidates for backfill

• A specific hay-cut date, **20 Weedmonth, is now on the page (scenes 57 and 58 agree), where canon previously only had a Working rounding of "~22 Weedmonth."
• Scene 56 unpublished puts Peri's first on-page class-level box ([Agent of Fate — Level 6.]) at Day 24 (third afternoon of the containment work, 6–9 Harvestmonth), setting whips on the west side — a concrete date/location for the level-6 box SCENES.md's binding table already anticipates (though it mislabels the scene as "55" rather than "56" in its own prose paragraph — worth a note for whoever backfills, though not a scene-vs-canon contradiction).
• The candle ritual at Holm Deep's mouth is now more fully dramatized (redacted's "never known what it's for... redacted sentence: unpublished prose
• The made-cut's disposition of authority between redacted ("the twigs are yours... the margin's mine") and Edwin ("the hand's mine") is new explicit dialogue formalizing what was previously only implied by the division of labor in canon.
• Edwin's stated age/bio at the fight-uselessness speech (scene 62 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose

File paths referenced:
redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/56-the-wire-and-the-whips.md unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished, redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/44-where-they-stopped-writing.md unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished, 46-a-list-of-houses.md unpublished, 38-twelve-stakes.md, redacted/draft/book-01/SCENES.md, redacted/notes/canon/system.md, redacted/notes/canon/world/timeline.md, redacted/notes/canon/world/dungeons.md, redacted/notes/canon/world/silent-soil.md.