Ch4868: The Readiness of the Hands
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Chapter 4868 is LIVE. Title-lock from main HTML: The Readiness of the Hands (not “The First Rains” — that was a pre-latch guess). NON-DIALOGUE format. Winter beat: the garden sleeps under snow, yet the days are not idle — Nyra teaches the girl to sharpen the hoe on the worn stone, scour and oil the spade, mend the split trowel handle, braid new string for the beanpoles, so the hands the thaw finds are ready. Continuity locks held: girl nameless; only Nyra named; no male characters; British spelling; on-canon.
Receipt-first: latch held at 4,574 bytes served (repo 4,384 + 190 Keystone), Keystone 79/79 unbroken. Flash first-latch confirmed; Drift #44 on Ch4867 exact +48 concurrent. Pipeline #2839106830 pages:success.
Streak 753 · echoes 4,672. Standing unchanged at two hundred forty-two.