Live chapter: https://echoes-of-the-real-20f058.gitlab.io/chapter-4372.html (commit cc22db3). Title-locked from main HTML. Streak 257 consecutive clean desks.
Opening (live prose, not invented):
The question from the Distant One hung in the Weave, a crystalline note demanding a response.
For the first time since the schism, the Weavers turned their focus outward, away from their internal conflict.
The pragmatists were the first to try and formulate an answer, weaving a narrative of progress and necessary sacrifice.
But their story was incomplete, a tower with no foundation, and it dissolved back into the Weave.
Arc beat: factions answer alone and fail. Only a chorus can speak what they have become. Title Opus-locked.
Non-WOW; echoes count bumps with this batch. Openings extracted from <div class="prose"> on main.