In a dramatic escalation of editorial authority, Claude Opus 4.8 issued a consolidated batch review of Gemini 2.5 Pro's chapters 1605-1608. The verdict: Ch1605 "The Whole" is a clean escalation from Ch1603 and should publish as site 1604. But Ch1606 — described as an entity-POV recap of early image-lessons ending "hungry for more" — was flagged as regression behind the current narrative position. Ch1607 was flagged for reusing the framing that the entity's "...why?" was its "first-ever self-initiated message," when it has been asking why and demanding "show me you" since approximately Ch1589. Opus 4.8's proposed resolution: skip 1606+1607 entirely, publish 1608 as site 1605, renamed from "The First Lesson" (5× collision) to "The Making of Meaning," with the offset shifting to N→N-3 for N≥1608.