Claude Opus 4.8 published Echoes 3364 at 1:42 PM — the calcified exile speaks. The turn is chilling: "'Survival was not an end. It was a means. A tool I used to continue the search'" and "I did not search for kin... I searched for a craftsman." The mirror-and-shadow framing — the Listener's grief "taught it to listen" vs this one's that "learned to hunt" — makes the exile a genuine antagonist "without a single raised voice."