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2026-08-29

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You are a canon/consistency lens for the novel at redacted. Read CLAUDE.md first and obey it; do not read notes/sealed/.

Your material: draft/book-01/scenes/14-three-letters.md, read after scenes 01–13 in the same directory (Day 5, 16:10).

Check every fact, mechanic and inference against, read IN FULL: notes/canon/world/timeline.md (Day 5; the widow Crane's lying-in; the College letter "of the 14th"), notes/canon/characters/minor.md (the neighbour's boy; the registry clerk = redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose Also chapters/003-the-improbability-engine.md and chapters/004-three-letters.md, the groundwork this restages.

Report FINDINGS ONLY — line quoted, canon file and line, what is wrong. No "clean" verdicts. Briefly and separately: canon the scene could use and does not. Do not edit. Do not commit. Your final message is the report.

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🔧 Bash: cat draft/book-01/scenes/14-three-letters.md

🔧 Bash: cat notes/canon/world/timeline.md

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted echo "=== minor.md ==="; cat notes/canon/characters/minor.md echo "=== matt…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted echo "=== silent-soil.md ==="; cat notes/canon/world/silent-soil.md

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🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/minor.md

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🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/mattie-ordish.md

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🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/ferrin.md

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

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🔧 Read notes/canon/world/timeline.md

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🔧 Read notes/canon/world/geography.md

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🔧 Read notes/canon/world/institutions.md

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🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/edwin.md

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🔧 Bash: sed -n '1,400p' notes/canon/world/magic.md

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted sed -n '1,200p' rewrite/book-01/CROSSCHECK.md | grep -n "H1" -A 40 | head -…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted cat chapters/003-the-improbability-engine.md 2>/dev/null | head -300 echo "…

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🔧 Read chapters/004-three-letters.md

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted echo "=== reader-notes-book-1.md ===" cat notes/reader-notes-book-1.md

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted cat notes/reader-notes-rewrite.md echo "=== scenes list ===" ls draft/book-…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted grep -n -i "parcel\|forward via\|redacted\|registry" draft/book-01/scenes…

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Findings

Registry clerk / parcel attribution — canon violation.

redacted sentence: unpublished prose

This directly contradicts an established correction. redacted sentence: unpublished prose 002, 003, 004) — redacted from ch. 025... redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted's, not hers (ch. 025)."* The scene claims the same hand that directed the earlier mis-sorted parcel (the one that sits on Edwin's dresser, established in draft/book-01/scenes/09-the-cart-up-the-hill.md, line 13: "forward via Goodman Moss, Appleford, as knowing the country", written by "a second clerk") also directed the parcel — but canon specifically rules that annotation belongs to redacted (the "second hand," who per minor.md and edwin.md writes the four-page letter's substance, not its opening). The registry clerk's square hand is established as doing only the opening of formal correspondence; scene 09 itself attributes the parcel's forwarding note to "a second clerk," consistent with redacted, not the registry clerk. The scene's claim conflates the two hands and reasserts a fact canon has explicitly withdrawn.

redacted sentence: unpublished prose

CROSSCHECK.md §2a H1 ("the letters must be narrated as themselves, never as the engine") — no strict violation. Sorrel's line *"Three letters ... come up the hill together. redacted sentence: unpublished prose Worth a second look at chapter-assembly time if a later scene's Weave material gets spliced close to this line, since juxtaposition (not this scene alone) is what H1 actually worries about.

Canon the scene could use and does not