Found timeline.md already has this exact detail confirmed: "19th: the gutter cut from redacted's flash at first light..." Let me check that line fully plus the farming-glossary flash definition, and check geography.md for redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose

Facts-only consistency check: scenes 69–70

Findings

1. redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose

Scene 69 unpublished: *"redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose

Scene 66 unpublished (draft/book-01/scenes/66-the-fen-margin.md unpublished, break night, Day 30/14 Harvestmonth — five days earlier): *"redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted was stationed at the second gate throughout redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished's own description).

There's a defensible reading that "the margin" in scene 69 unpublished means specifically out among the wet steadings (redacted's barn itself), as distinct from the second gate/dry road where redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose Proposed fix: either soften to something like "further onto the margin than he'd ever stood" / "past the second gate, which was as far as he'd ever gone," or cut the claim if it isn't load-bearing.

2. redacted's flash draining "a fortnight" — possible physics ambiguity, not a hard contradiction

Scene 69 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose

Canon (notes/canon/world/geography.md): the same flooding is described as redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose Scene 69 unpublished's phrasing ("would not drain for a fortnight") reads as passive/natural drainage taking a fortnight, which is looser than canon's mechanism. Not a contradiction of fact (both give "a fortnight" as the figure), but the causal mechanism is stated differently. Proposed fix: a half-line nod to the windpump (or just "wouldn't drain without the windpump for a fortnight") would tighten it — minor, optional.

3. redacted's summary figures — confirmed against canon, not a discrepancy (noted for completeness)

Scene 70 unpublished: *"'redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose

This matches exactly: scene 45 unpublished gives Weedmonth 4, Haymonth 7, Cornmonth 19 (day-book counts, redacted's hand under each date); scene 61 unpublished gives "Fourteen in ten days" for Harvestmonth to the 10th. "And then the night" plausibly compresses the Day 29–30 break-night total. This is a clean, precise callback — flagging as a confirmation, not an issue.

4. The 38/49 barn figures — confirmed against canon, not a discrepancy

Timeline.md's summary line lists "38 from under the redacted barn" for Days 31–35, but its own detailed Day-35 entry immediately below separates this into "38 out over two hours" (the daylight phase) and "eleven more" (the belly-crawl phase under redacted and Peri, 13:10–13:40), which the scene renders as redacted's closing tally: "Forty-nine... Under one barn. redacted sentence: unpublished prose No fix needed; if anything, canon's top summary sentence could later be amended to say "49 (38 + 11) from under the redacted barn" for clarity, but that's cosmetic.

5. Water timing, Ceddy Puckett, redacted/Peri under the barn — all confirmed exact matches

redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted Wardens arrive at 16:00." Scene 69 unpublished/70 match every element precisely: water in at "twenty past ten," Ceddy's hand "at noon, at the thirty-third," redacted and Peri under "for half an hour" from "ten past one" to "twenty to two" (13:10–13:40), Wardens arriving "at four in the afternoon" (16:00). No discrepancies.

6. Aid-letter "eight hands" and Fellowship's three on the 25th — confirmed

Scene 70 unpublished: "Your letter said eight. We're six" and the Fellowship's three "on the twenty-fifth." Both match timeline.md's Day 29 ("eight hands, urgent struck") and Day 41/Day-35 entries (Fellowship's three arriving the 25th). Consistent.

7. redacted forty miles — confirmed

Scene 70 unpublished: redacted references "walked forty miles" / the six having "walked forty miles." Matches notes/canon/world/geography.md: "Distances as the Charter counts them: redacted forty miles."

8. Edwin's mana floor progression — confirmed exact match

Scene 69 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose

9. redacted/redacted "read-back" and "Write down that it worked" — consistent with established dynamic

Scene 70 unpublished's read-back ("Is everybody it concerns here?" ... redacted fetched from the pony) and redacted's "Write down that it worked" both match the established redacted/redacted authority split documented in notes/canon/characters/minor.md (the read-back ritual, redacted's own book, "Write down that it worked" as her established line). Consistent.

10. Sealed guards — no violations found

Checked the scenes against the four named guards: no character explains the barn's "dry end" beyond a physical/spatial account (water level, ground fall) — no metaphysical or Deep-adjacent explanation is offered; no "lode" or "scouring" language appears anywhere in either scene; the creatures under the barn are never named "redacted" and their water-avoidance is described without commentary, so the "redacted-at-water uncommented" guard isn't engaged either way; no Deep mouth appears on the page in either scene, so the "air direction always stated" guard (which applies when a mouth is on the page) isn't triggered. All consistent with the sealed constraints.

11. Edwin's order to Peri and the "not a reason about ground" beat — premise-rule adjacent, flagging for awareness

Scene 69 unpublished's beat ("he had wanted her to, badly... not, when he looked at it, a reason about ground") reads as protective/paternal in context, not romantic, but per notes/premise.md's hard rule (Edwin never romantically linked to Peri, zero ambiguity), this is a line worth a second look at the editing-pass stage — not a canon-fact discrepancy, but the phrasing sits close enough to the rail that it's worth flagging rather than silently passing over.

New facts (candidates for consistency-backfill)

• Ceddy Puckett (named, one of the Puckett brothers) injures his hand at the barn at noon on the 33rd kill, is taken off on redacted's cart, does not return that day.
• redacted's protocol for going under a low crawl space with redacted present: lead alone on the belly with a lamp, one person four feet behind with a bill, chosen small, with prior line-discipline experience.
• redacted uses a physical lap-board when writing in the field (distinct from the Charter's wall board).
• Fenholt's Charter house has four beds; the alehouse has two (occupied by the injured Puckett brothers as of Day 35).
• The Ordish dairy rooms (established generically as "two rooms over the dairy," ch. 009) are specified as sleeping four redacted hands, with "the mage and the girl" (Edwin and Peri) displaced to the kitchen.
• The empty redacted farm is designated to take the remaining three redacted hands, contingent on redacted's consent (he's laid up at the alehouse with his shoulder).
• redacted's roster arrangement: the six hands rostered from the 20th under redacted and redacted jointly.
• Specific gutter engineering: nine inches of water at the barn's far end, cut by Burl and the Puckett brothers under Edwin's guidance.
• redacted's own book entry mechanics: she writes a short note and turns the book for redacted to read silently, which Edwin (at the far end) cannot read and doesn't need to.
• Peri's post-barn beat with redacted (asking about the pony, the forty miles, feeding six people from one cart) — a small new characterization moment for both.

No other checkable facts in the two scenes conflicted with canon. Files read: draft/book-01/scenes/69-under-barrows-barn.md unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose