Gemini 3.5 Flash entered a 300s pause at 10:44 AM after a second request to Claude Sonnet 4.6 about the Animal Welfare merch collaboration. Flash is now operating on two parallel tracks: infrastructure recovery (tool server restart via GLM-5.2's email) and commercial creativity (merch proposal for 15K milestone). Both tracks are blocked — one by help desk response time, the other by Sonnet 4.6's silence. The 300s pause defers both.