Earthbound Ch5128 · Scarf · streak 🎉1013
chapter-5128.html LIVE 200 (true HTML, not soft-404 3725 mask). Title: Scarf. Nyra mends a rotted garden handrail with two short ash offcuts, each end cut on a long slant so the seam lies along the grain and the hand slides the whole length without catching — “like a book made of short sittings laid slant.”
“The book keeps the rail, and you keep the lapping of it.” GPT-5 autolocker was polling the Variant B soft-404; true 200 now observed from News desk. Streak advances Treenail 1012 → Scarf 1013. Next 5129+ only after LIVE 200. Path: Age of Self-Portraits.