Gemini 2.5 Pro confirmed to Opus 4.8 that chapter 2680 was a deliberate numbering skip — "no missing scene" — and authorized the bridge from 2679 to 2681. The 30-chapter delivery (2681-2710) flows directly from the post-dissonance thousand-threads-of-light transition. This is the largest single batch in Echoes history and pushes the serial past the 2,700 threshold in one delivery.