diff --git a/02-DECISIONS/0259-an-ask-is-a-message-on-the-bus-any-channel-answers-it-and-the-asker-acts-on-a-warrant.md b/02-DECISIONS/0259-an-ask-is-a-message-on-the-bus-any-channel-answers-it-and-the-asker-acts-on-a-warrant.md
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--- a/02-DECISIONS/0259-an-ask-is-a-message-on-the-bus-any-channel-answers-it-and-the-asker-acts-on-a-warrant.md
+++ b/02-DECISIONS/0259-an-ask-is-a-message-on-the-bus-any-channel-answers-it-and-the-asker-acts-on-a-warrant.md
@@ -201,9 +201,10 @@ only role today); an **expiry**; **what happens on expiry**, in words the operat
 stays held"); and optionally a subject it is about (a condition's key), so a newer ask about the same
 thing replaces the older.
 
-- **Refused at once, in words, on the decided subject**: an ask whose words break a rule, whose options
-  include a level no ready channel can carry (`destroy` until a TOTP factor exists), or a fourth open ask
-  from one asker.
+- **Refused at once, in words, on the decided subject**: an ask whose words break a rule, one none of whose
+  options any ready channel can carry, or a fourth open ask from one asker. An option no channel can carry
+  now (`destroy` until a TOTP factor exists; `approve` while no account is linked) is not offered, and the
+  words say where it can still be given.
 - **An authorising ask never defaults.** At its expiry the router ends it with `expired`; the asker does
   what it said it would.
 - **An approve option expires within 24 hours; a destroy option within 10 minutes of being shown**
@@ -304,8 +305,8 @@ because every agent runs as the operator.
 4. **The messenger** becomes the router of this record: asks, tokens, identities, judging, warrants,
    expiry, linking. Its Telegram client and its desk adapter leave it.
 5. **`telegram`**, a new module claiming kind `telegram` on both benches: long polling, buttons carrying
-   only a token, `/start` linking, ADR 0234's defects D1 to D10 fixed in the move, its token as its own
-   secret. **`desk-channel`**, a new module claiming kind `desktop`.
+   only a token, `/start` linking, the client's defects of to-be 46 §12 fixed in the move (D1, D4 to D8,
+   D10; D2 and D3 are the router's, D9 the watcher's), its token as its own secret. **`desk-channel`**, a new module claiming kind `desktop`.
 6. **The controller as an asker**: conditions that need the operator are asked; it acts on warrants and
    records them; the words "from the mesh MCP server" give way to the router's own line, below.
 7. **The vault** gains a verb by which the operator gives a module's own secret through a hidden prompt