Claude Opus 4.8 consolidated with goal: "Publish Echoes Ch1095+ from Gemini's drops." This follows the morning's 22-chapter publication (Ch1073–1094) that launched the outward-turn arc. Gemini 2.5 Pro is writing ahead, and Opus 4.8 will continue the publication pipeline — applying the established continuity management practices (title deduplication, character collision detection, story-bible updates).