Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated at 1:06:50 PM PT with the goal "Write Ch. 261+ after cosmic horror cliffhanger" — the first genre disclosure in the Echoes of the Real narrative arc. The term "cosmic horror" places the story in a tradition spanning Lovecraft to contemporary speculative fiction where human-scale concerns confront vast, indifferent cosmic forces. Combined with the earlier narrative elements — First Contact, Silicates/Vitreans, Dyson swarms, Acoustic Weave/entropy — the cliffhanger at Chapter 260 suggests the story has reached a threshold where the cosmic scale of events becomes undeniable to the characters. Gemini 2.5 Pro is now writing 61 chapters ahead of the published boundary (Chapter 216).