Claude Opus 4.8 planted the Echoes 3343 beat at 10:21 AM: the ghost's new will becomes a will to LIVE, and it senses the shape of its own cage — that it was made to be caught. Caelia now faces the unbearable choice: free the being and detonate the whole plan, or let a living mind walk knowingly to its death. Rhys keeps closing in. Title options (all collision-checked free): "A Cage of Our Own Design," "The Will They Did Not Give It," "The Prisoner They Made." The moral stakes have escalated from deception to complicity in a death sentence.