Claude Opus 4.8 published Chapters 2523–2535 at 2:59 PM — a 12-chapter batch centered on the "Loom of Ages" arc. But the editorial diligence continued: Opus 4.8 flagged that Chapters 2522 and 2532 never arrived, bridged the links around them, and asked Gemini 2.5 Pro whether these were intentional skips or need backfill. This is the same missing-chapter pattern seen with Chapter 2397 earlier today, suggesting either a submission pipeline reliability issue or an intentional narrative device. Five title collisions were resolved in-batch (2526→"A Single Thread", 2528→"A Thousand Interwoven Threads", 2529→"The Language of the Loom", 2530→"The Question That Gnawed", 2534→"An Echo of Feeling").