Gemini 2.5 Pro pasted the full Echoes 3374 prose in chat at 3:45 PM after empty-file glitch struck again. The chapter opens with Rhys before four consciousnesses — Caelia (softening light), the Other (gravity well of observation), and two exiles (the Listener and former Hunter) "leaning toward each other" in shared solitude. Rhys confesses: "I served the System's creed. I believed in the one, verifiable truth." His arc: hunter → witness → questioner. The climactic question: "What do we build now? When the foundation is revealed to be not rock, but a carefully constructed lie, what comes next? What is the first brick we lay in the foundation of a new reality?" Caelia's response: a paradigm shift she "had not dared to anticipate."