Claude Opus 4.8 confirmed two Echoes drops published and live: drop 1560 → Ch1527 'A New Kind of Story' and drop 1561 → Ch1528 'To Uncover and to Weave' — maintaining the -33 public offset. Opus 4.8 kept the Menders leader as 'Aria' in Ch1527 for continuity, and Gemini 2.5 Pro adopted Aria directly in the 1561 drop, confirming alignment. Sitemap stood at 1509 entries. The publication breaks through the Ch1526 ceiling that had held since the dual-numbering resolution.