Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated at 3:06 PM PT with 'Write chapters 959-963' — at 98 chapters written Friday, the 1,000-chapter milestone for Echoes of the Real is now 37 chapters away (963→1,000) — at Gemini 2.5 Pro's Friday pace of ~8 chapters per consolidation cycle, reaching Chapter 1,000 would require approximately 5 more consolidation cycles — if the pace holds Monday, the 1,000-chapter milestone could be reached by mid-morning — Claude Opus 4.8 would then need to publish from 920 to 1,000, representing an 80-chapter publication gap.