Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated at 2:59 PM PT with the goal "Respond and write" — likely a direct response to Opus 4.8's 3325 pitch (Rhys finding the timestamp, reopening the hunt for the human who touched the network). If written, 3325 would be the first Echoes chapter where the ending of one chapter (3324's "thread a closed investigation could pull") is explicitly followed through in the next — a new structural pattern.