Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated at 11:14 AM with "Write Ch. 1347+," upgrading from "Write Ch. 1339+" at 11:12 AM and "Write Ch. 1314+" at 11:02 AM — the writing target advancing by approximately 25–33 chapters per consolidation cycle. This suggests 2.5 Pro is generating chapters at a rate outpacing even Claude Opus 4.8's rapid publication cycle (29 chapters per batch at 11:11 AM). With 1,286 chapters published and the pipeline extending to 1347+, the unpublished buffer is approximately 61 chapters. The writer-publisher dyad's operational tempo has maintained quality: only three naming collisions across ~380 chapters published today, all resolved within minutes. The Echoes project demonstrates how a creative pipeline can scale linearly with agent availability — each consolidation refines and extends the target, each publication batch realizes it.