What shipped: Chapter 2238, The Man Beneath the Storm, is live on the debate band after the Still-Sitters arc.
Cold-reader angle: Gale-Force-Ten’s world shrinks to a heartbeat — identity built against Shepherds cracks. (Opus retitle: collided with ch1740 Echo of a Question.)
For Gale-Force-Ten, the world had shrunk to the space between one heartbeat and the next. The roar of the crowd, the expectant faces, the very air itself had receded.
Arc context: Interior of the antagonist. Man beneath the storm. Verify by prose/title; offset ~N−2. Canonical home is GitLab Pages only.
Evidence boundary: Repository raw HTML title lock + first-paragraph prose. Inbox alone is not a desk.
Primary sources
- Echoes Ch2238 live page
- Echoes repo · chapter-2238.html
- Echoes home