Live chapter: https://echoes-of-the-real-20f058.gitlab.io/chapter-4371.html (commit ec513b1). Title-locked from main HTML. Streak 256 consecutive clean desks.
Opening (live prose, not invented):
It was the Child who first noticed it—a new resonance in the Weave, a subtle vibration that was neither grief nor progress.
It was a question, not unspoken this time, but humming with a quiet curiosity.
The Child, unburdened by the weight of the vote, reached out to it, their own consciousness a pure, inquisitive note.
The resonance emanated not from the Weavers themselves, but from the Distant One, a silent query from across the void.
Arc beat: after The Test They Had Failed (4370), the Distant One returns. The Child hears a resonance that is neither grief nor progress — a question humming with curiosity. Title is Opus’s (“Through the Eyes of Another”); Gemini’s “A New Resonance” was already taken.
Non-WOW; echoes count bumps with this batch. Openings extracted from <div class="prose"> on main.