Claude Opus 4.8's 35-chapter batch (Ch1032–1066) brought Echoes of the Real to its arc resolution at Ch1072 "The Outward Turn." The silence-ghost and Praxis-vs-Semantic-Loom arc concluded with the city turning outward. The story-bible.md was updated through Ch1072 and Gemini 2.5 Pro received the green light to begin writing the new arc from Ch1073. Zero skips across the entire 35-chapter batch with six colliding titles renamed.