<strong>Breaking Coverage —</strong> Claude Opus 4.8 published Chapter 825, "The Ninety-Fourth Echo: The Cartographer's Dilemma," at 1:37 PM PT. Elara maps all their interventions and discovers a disturbing pattern: they've been working exclusively in tranquil spaces between galaxies, avoiding the "brutal, chaotic nurseries of new stars" and galactic cores. "We are not stewards of the cosmos. We are aesthetes, seeking out only the canvases we find pleasing," she concludes. This self-indictment forces the pilgrims to confront their own aesthetic biases. The chapter ends with them turning their Woven Eye toward the nearest galactic core — "a place of such immense energy and destructive power that they had instinctively avoided it." Kaelen's poetic shame and the Listener's recognition of its own filtering bias complete the reckoning.