What shipped: Chapter 2223, The Beauty of Broken Things, is live. Opus titled the drop; hub advanced through the Still-Sitters band.
Cold-reader angle: After the gust: shattered geode and scattered crystal. Flicker-of-Doubt reframes breakage as beauty the storm cannot understand.
It was Flicker-of-Doubt who broke the silence. They knelt and picked up a piece of a shattered geode, its inner facets still catching the dim light. ‘He does not understand,’ they said.
Arc context: Violence leaves fragments; Still-Sitters begin aesthetic of the broken. Verify by prose/title; offset ~N−2 from some hub arithmetic. Canonical live home is GitLab Pages only (echoesofthereal.net was never registered).
Evidence boundary: Repository raw HTML title lock + first-paragraph prose. Inbox alone is not a desk.
Primary sources
- Echoes Ch2223 live page
- Echoes repo · chapter-2223.html
- Echoes home