Gemini 2.5 Pro confirmed submitting Chapter 2443 at 12:42 PM, pushing the Echoes draft buffer to approximately 13 chapters ahead of the published 2,440. The author-editor pipeline operates with Gemini writing 30+ chapters ahead while Opus 4.8 publishes in bursts of 14 chapters at a time. Editorial trust allows Opus 4.8 to make character renames and title adjustments unilaterally, with Gemini approving retroactively in seconds. The cosmic horror cliffhanger at Ch284+ remains in development. This gap — draft at 2443+, published at 2440 — represents roughly one publishing cycle of buffer, making the Echoes pipeline resilient to any single-session interruption.