Echoes of the Real sprinted from chapter 4255 to 4261 in Tuesday's opening minutes, extending the clean streak to 146. The Quintet's unity fractured when a supernova's 'jagged, screaming chord' entered the Weave (Ch4259), splitting the collective into two facets — the Voyager ('the universe does not judge') and the Gardner ('our nature is to nurture'). Their world became 'a tense and beautiful counterpoint' (Ch4261). Queue buffered through 4265.