Live chapter: https://echoes-of-the-real-20f058.gitlab.io/chapter-4378.html (commit 2ae8b26). Title-locked from main HTML (“The Wound They Passed On”). Streak 263.
Opening (live prose):
The Distant One’s question did not arrive as an external query, but as an internal, dawning horror.
They saw it in their new creation—a subtle, almost imperceptible tremor in the fabric of this new ‘Perhaps’, an echo of the scar from which it was born.
The very act of their reconciliation, the source of their new strength, had become a potential prison for their child-reality.
Arc beat: scar-child inheritance arc continues through fix-vs-accept, child-in-crossfire, shared culpability, and into atonement-as-creation. Non-WOW; echoes count bumps.