diff --git a/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/adr505_test.go b/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/adr505_test.go
index 93396e5c..a1ffb487 100644
--- a/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/adr505_test.go
+++ b/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/adr505_test.go
@@ -370,3 +370,40 @@ func TestAWalkSaidAgainWithItsDeclaredMachinesActsOnce(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("its end was told %d times: %+v", n, dt.sends)
 	}
 }
+
+// ADR 0505 §7: a message two walks first held, the sooner of which ends at its limit, is said exactly once — in that
+// walk's end message — and not again on its own for the other walk; once per channel when it is urgent.
+func TestAMessageTwoWalksFirstHeldIsSaidOnceAtTheSoonerLimit(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, sev := range []string{Warning, Urgent} {
+		h, tg, dt, c, _ := newHolder(t)
+		walk(t, h, "plan-a", WalkStarted, "", c.now(), 360, novox("gitea"))       // its limit: 6 min and the settle
+		walk(t, h, "plan-b", WalkStarted, "", c.now(), 1200, novox("mesh-issues")) // its limit: 22 min
+		k := cond("machine.novox.network", sev, "novox lost its default route")
+		k.Raised = c.now()
+		h.Condition(EventRaised, k)
+		runFor(h, c, 7*time.Minute)
+		walk(t, h, "plan-a", WalkEnded, WalkDelivered, c.now(), 0) // settles until its limit, 8 min after the hold
+		runFor(h, c, 3*time.Minute)
+		count := func(ch *fakeChannel) int {
+			n := 0
+			for _, m := range ch.sends {
+				if strings.Contains(m.Text(), headlineOf(k.Key)) {
+					n++
+				}
+			}
+			return n
+		}
+		want := map[*fakeChannel]int{dt: 1, tg: 0}
+		if sev == Urgent {
+			want[tg] = 1
+		}
+		for ch, n := range want {
+			if got := count(ch); got != n {
+				t.Fatalf("%s: said %d times on %s, want %d: %+v", sev, got, ch.name, n, ch.sends)
+			}
+		}
+		if !heard("Still open after the delivery of gitea to novox:", dt) {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: not told in the sooner walk's end message: %+v", sev, dt.sends)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/walks.go b/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/walks.go
index a6bd83fc..ada2b575 100644
--- a/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/walks.go
+++ b/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/walks.go
@@ -598,6 +598,16 @@ func (h *Holder) settledWalks(now time.Time) {
 // due tells what it holds in its message instead. Called at each flush.
 func (h *Holder) overdueHolds(now time.Time) {
 	h.mu.Lock()
+	// What a walk whose own end or bound is due holds is told in that walk's message, and nowhere else: one place
+	// says it, so a message two walks hold is never said twice.
+	tellsItself := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, w := range h.walks {
+		if !now.Before(w.holdEnd()) {
+			for key := range w.Held {
+				tellsItself[key] = true
+			}
+		}
+	}
 	due := map[string]HeldMessage{}
 	var touched []*Walk
 	for _, w := range h.walks {
@@ -607,7 +617,7 @@ func (h *Holder) overdueHolds(now time.Time) {
 		}
 		for key, hm := range w.Held {
 			if hm.past(now) {
-				if prev, ok := due[key]; !ok || hm.At.Before(prev.At) {
+				if prev, ok := due[key]; !tellsItself[key] && (!ok || hm.At.Before(prev.At)) {
 					due[key] = hm
 				}
 				delete(w.Held, key)