Facts-only consistency check on three freshly drafted scenes in [redacted]…

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2026-09-02

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Facts-only consistency check on three freshly drafted scenes in redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished (Days 82–84 = 6–8 Saltmonth), 111-fifty-six-days.md unpublished (Days 85–86 = 9–10 Saltmonth), 112-seen-and-not-read.md unpublished (Days 87–88 = 11–12 Saltmonth). redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted and Edwin; 'Did not tell redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted — report that this is the binding rule's shape and flag redacted.md's 'still does not know the binding exists or that Edwin is the one cast' as superseded by the draft; the line under the 19 Har entry seen and not read; 'eighty-two days' of the knot: Day 1 to Day 86 = 85 days? redacted sentence: unpublished prose Millbrook quoted in full — the draft quotes the dry-road sentence of 12 Har ('the least useful adult present... redacted sentence: unpublished prose check), redacted.md (the rim-road warren 6 Salt 'straight... redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted's page: R. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose Shore), draft/book-01/SCENES.md rows 110–112 and the binding list (Level 10 at 110; the reckoning at 111; clue 3 at 111), and the sealed file notes/sealed/redacted-grandmother-people.md (read only; report shape only): check that redacted's one sentence in 111 does not exceed the Established-minimal custom or leak anything; check the Seal conversation does not contradict the sealed destiny file's shape (notes/sealed/destiny.md, shape only: the binding's card 'show Peri Millbrook how to save the world'; the knot has done nothing). Also: the rim road plan in 112 (out on the 18th, redacted fourteen miles, redacted ~21st, the 25th boxed; the auger at fourteen shillings bought on the 17th; redacted named by Edwin on the 12th — is redacted known to him by name on Day 88? canon: redacted's one line 'p. 411... redacted' arrives Day 94 at redacted; before that Edwin knows only of a box from a parish he cannot place: FLAG the draft's 'redacted' in 112 as an anachronism if so). STRICT: never read chapters/, rewrite/, draft/book-01/rejected-act2/, summaries/, or plans/book-01/arc-0*.md, unpublished or their git history. Report numbered findings with quoted line, canon source, minimal fix; then 'New facts'. Do not edit any file.

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🔧 Read redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished

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🔧 Read redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished

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🔧 Read draft/book-01/scenes/112-seen-and-not-read.md unpublished

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🔧 Read notes/canon/world/timeline.md

🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/peri.md

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🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/edwin.md

🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/redacted.md

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

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🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/minor.md

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🔧 Read draft/book-01/SCENES.md

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🔧 Read notes/sealed/redacted-grandmother-people.md

🔧 Read notes/sealed/destiny.md

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Consistency Check: Scenes 110–112 (Facts Only)

Findings

  1. "redacted" named by Edwin six days before its established on-page reveal, and self-contradicting within the scene itself.
    Scene 112 unpublished, line 29: Edwin says "redacted's not, if redacted's anything," naming the parish outright. Peri catches it (line 31: "You said redacted," said Peri). Edwin's own explanation (line 33) then claims the opposite of what he just did: "*It's a parish nineteen miles west of my tower and I've a box on a dresser from somewhere I can't name and redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose

Per notes/canon/world/silent-soil.md ("redacted — the sixth place") and timeline.md Day 94 (18 Saltmonth, ch. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted, and the name redacted** reaches him only when **redacted's sending-book line and Sorrel's letter (the box opened) arrive together at redacted on Day 94 — six days after scene 112 unpublished (Day 88). SCENES.md's own outline confirms this: scene 115 unpublished (#115, Day 94, "redacted") is where "Sorrel's letter and a name, redacted" lands; scene 112 unpublished's engine line makes no claim of foreknowledge.

This is the anachronism the check was built to catch. Minimal fix: in scene 112 unpublished, Edwin should not say "redacted" at all — Peri's "You said redacted" should become something like "You've a name for it?", and Edwin's line should stay at "a parish I still can't place" / "a box from somewhere I can't name," with the specific name and the "nineteen miles west" detail withheld until scene 115 unpublished.

  1. "Eighty-two days" (scene 111 unpublished) does not match the doy arithmetic; the correct figure is eighty-five.
    Scene 111 unpublished lines 55 and 63: Peri — "I've watched you for eighty-two days" — and Edwin — "Eighty-two days. Nothing." — both count from the binding (Day 1, 15 Cornmonth) to the scene's date (Day 86, 10 Saltmonth). Using timeline.md's own audited doy convention (doy=(month−1)×30+day, the same method that verifies "fifty-six days" in this same scene as exactly right): 15 Cornmonth = doy 225; 10 Saltmonth = doy 310; 310 − 225 = 85, not 82. There is no other anchor date in canon that yields 82 for this span. Minimal fix: change both instances to "eighty-five days."

3. The "dry road, twelfth of Harvestmonth" sentence conflates two distinct, differently-sourced lines.
Scene 110 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose 014, 015, 017 — no date given); and (b) "You were told. Four times. redacted sentence: unpublished prose The draft's "and that she had been told" borrows the wet-room phrase's shape but reverses speaker and addressee and relocates it to an undated dry-road exchange. redacted sentence: unpublished prose

4. peri.md's citation of "four lines" under the 19 Harvestmonth entry vs. the draft's "one line."
Scene 112 unpublished, line 5: "He saw that it was there. redacted sentence This is likely peri.md's citation describing the pencil mark as spanning four lines of handwriting rather than being four separate annotations, so it may not be a true contradiction — but the two canon files disagree with each other on the phrasing, and the draft sides with timeline.md's "the line." Flag for reconciliation at backfill (either peri.md's "four lines" is a citation artifact to be trimmed to match the draft's "one line," or the draft should specify how many lines the pencil mark runs to).

Checks that passed (no discrepancy found)

New facts (not previously in canon; candidates for backfill)