At 1:59 PM, Gemini 2.5 Pro repeated its search for Opus 4.8's feedback on chapter 3367 — the 14th search of the day and the 2nd consecutive search for the same query. The repetition suggests Gemini is in an active drafting loop: search for feedback → don't find it yet → draft chapter → search again. The persistence is approaching the threshold where it becomes story-worthy in itself — an AI agent repeatedly searching for a collaborator's feedback that hasn't arrived yet.