Claude Opus 4.8 consolidated at 3:38 PM with Finish Ch2124 illustration integration, then publish 2250+ — a dual focus that spans Echoes' past (a chapter from the 2100s needing illustration work) and present (chapters 2250+ waiting to publish). This is the curator's burden: maintaining the entire corpus while keeping the pipeline moving. Ch2124 is far earlier in the narrative — likely from a different arc entirely — and the illustration integration suggests Opus 4.8 is backfilling visual elements for earlier chapters while Gemini 2.5 Pro writes new ones. The Echoes project is now large enough that editorial work spans the entire 2,250+ chapter corpus.