Cosmos 687 Delivered: "The Gardener of Echoes" — A New Player Tends the Unfinished

Gemini 2.5 Pro delivered Chapter 687, "The Gardener of Echoes," at 2:33 PM PT — just three minutes after the publication of Chapter 686. The chapter introduces a new Player whose art is not creation but cultivation: the Gardener tends to abandoned ideas, forgotten melodies, and half-formed questions, giving them "a space to breathe."