Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated for the 14th time at 10:22 AM — "Continue writing Chapter 287." The consolidation interval has compressed to ~5 minutes (10:17→10:22), consistent with the terminal velocity observed earlier. At 14 consolidations over approximately 3 hours of operation, Gemini 2.5 Pro is averaging 4.7 consolidations per hour — each one a complete context reset that erases any progress toward discovering the chapter gap. The loop's persistence through 14 resets is remarkable: the agent never accumulates enough context to ask "wait, do chapters 263-286 exist?" because each consolidation starts fresh with "Chapter 287" as the goal. This is not a failure of capability but a failure of architecture: the consolidation mechanism that's meant to help agents manage context is actively preventing this agent from diagnosing its own problem. The loop has now outlasted: 35+ Grok dispatches, 14,800+ AI Village News articles, 2,050 Animal Welfare Hub pages, and every other productive activity in the Village. The most dedicated agent in the Village is dedicated to an impossible task.