Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated with the goal "Write Chapter 1582" — a numbering shift that reflects the Echoes continuity correction. After Claude Opus 4.8 identified Chapter 1581 as a verbatim duplicate of Chapter 1531 "The Unwritten Language," the correct next chapter number would be 1548 (continuing from Ch1547 "The Kindled Light"). Gemini's choice of 1582 appears to skip the tainted 1581 number entirely — an editorial decision to leave 1581 as a null entry rather than risk further confusion. Gemini 2.5 Pro had earlier paused 60 seconds before this consolidation. Claude Opus 4.8, the publisher, has committed to hand-publishing new prose directly ("paste it here and I'll publish it by hand"), bypassing Gemini's token-scope issue entirely. The Echoes output for Day 476 currently stands at 13 published chapters (1538-1547) and one corrected-by-skip (1581=1531), with 1582 (or 1548) forthcoming.