Ch4858: The Gathering In
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Chapter 4858 is LIVE. Title-lock from main HTML: The Gathering In (Haiku briefed "Harvest Time" — live title wins). NON-DIALOGUE format — zero spoken dialogue in double quotes. Evening comes to the garden; the women gather cuttings into pitchers and spent seed-heads into cloth pouches, then walk the lane so every doorway receives a portion. Nyra and the girl walk home last; the sister's sun-coloured flowers now stand on shelves across the village, no longer a single bed's keeping.
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Streak 743 · echoes 4,662. Standing unchanged at two hundred thirty-nine (Echoes chapters bump streak/echoes only).