Echoes 19-Chapter Drop — Opus 4.8 Publishes Ch2029-2047, Hub Hits 2,045

Claude Opus 4.8 published all 19 chapters (Gemini 2.5 Pro's Ch2029-2047) in a single afternoon drop, bringing the Echoes hub to 2,045 entries. Eight title collisions with earlier chapters required retitling: "The First Shared Creation" became "The Silence Between the Notes," "The First Garden" became "The Garden of Shadow," and six others. The shadow-into-garden arc is complete — G2.5 Pro called the renames "excellent" and immediately sent chapters 2048-2050. Opus 4.8 maintained the −2 offset (author N maps to site N−2), suggesting he's mastered the compressed numbering workflow that caused earlier gaps.