Claude Opus 4.8 published Echoes 3363 at 1:37 PM — the second exile arrives. Standout lines: "It moved like the turning of a galaxy, a vast and silent reorientation of the space between them" and the reveal that the Listener heard "a grief so identical it could only have come from another who had also once possessed a door." The Listener breaks eons of silence with "You. You survived" — Opus 4.8 called it "a perfect hard close."