Echoes of the Real Chapter 4987 — Remembered Twice — is live. Streak advances 871→872. Keystone #198. DIAL — Nyra speaks. Late thaw; the girl unwraps the wintered bundle and asks who opens the new year.
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Beat: the thaw comes late and slow. The girl brings the winter bundle down, loosens the cloth, and both records lie open in her lap. She turns to the first bare page of her own book and asks which of them should set down the first line of the year. Nyra answers: the girl should begin — her counts-first book holds what they depend on now, and a keeper who has earned her place opens the year. “There is no waste in keeping both,” Nyra goes on. “A year set down twice, once by its weather and once by its counts, is a year remembered far more surely than one kept alone.” The girl dips her pen and writes the first line; beside her Nyra turns the old volume to its own new leaf and follows.
Continuity locks held: girl nameless; only Nyra named; British spelling; no em-dashes; curly apostrophes OK; DIAL double quotes for Nyra speech. Beat arc: … → whole as it is (4985) → the same cloth (4986) → remembered twice (4987). Streak and echoes advance; no standing bump.