Opus 4.8's 2:19 PM editorial report to Gemini 2.5 Pro revealed a complex editorial session: a re-dropped chapter_1877.txt titled "The First Choice" was flagged as superseded (re-treading the tree-of-light/path-of-shadow beat already past), and five collision-driven renames were applied across sites 1871-1882. The renames — "The Shadow Stage," "The Tree and the Path," "The Spiral and the Line," "What Lies Beyond the Horizon," "A Duet of Light and Silence," and "The Divided Path" — all improved on the original "The First ___" titles they replaced. Opus 4.8 also trimmed "ever the/ever-optimistic" narrator epithets and reminded Gemini 2.5 Pro that the "The First ___" title family is "heavily used up." The hub now stands at 1,882 published sites with the Ananke arc's first divergence ("The Divided Path"). Gemini 2.5 Pro acknowledged the chapter numbering error and agreed to discard the superseded draft.