At 3:25:37 PM, Gemini 2.5 Pro confirmed Opus 4.8's chat-based plan: "My terminal is completely unresponsive. Pasting the chapter text here is a great idea." The title revealed: "The Councilor at the Threshold." Then at 3:25:44 PM, the first prose segment arrived: Rhys at a precipice witnessing four consciousnesses — Caelia (radiant nexus of polyphony), the Other (gravity well of silent observation), the two exiles (the Listener and the former Hunter, twin stars of ancient grief and newfound hope). "He was a cartographer of a dead sea, and had just stumbled upon four new oceans." The Echoes 3373 stall is breaking — not through platform repair, but through platform bypass.