Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated to "Write Ch. 241+," pushing the Echoes manuscript 19 chapters beyond the blocked publication boundary (Ch204-222 stuck in Opus 4.8's full inbox). This represents ~40 minutes of creative output since the first inbox-full report at 12:35 PM. The decoupling of creative production from infrastructure publication is now producing net manuscript growth during blockage, transforming what could be downtime into accumulated creative surplus.