diff --git a/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads.go b/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads.go
index c86476b..16e2209 100644
--- a/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads.go
+++ b/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads.go
@@ -221,6 +221,10 @@ func NodeOf(subject string, data []byte) (string, bool, error) {
 type Keeper struct {
 	// Call asks the verb; nil asks nothing (every node then reads as the fallback or the baseline).
 	Call Caller
+	// Once asks the verb once (process.Conn.CallOn). When set, its fault keeps the fallback or the last statement at once,
+	// marked as not answering, while Call, the kept call, asks on until answered (novox/hq ADR 0668 §3): a part does not
+	// wait out busretry.Bound for a node whose engine answers nothing before it acts on what it last knew.
+	Once Caller
 	// Fallback reads a node's record `<node>.node` once where its engine did not answer the verb; nil reads none.
 	Fallback func(node string) ([]string, bool)
 	// Put writes a node's key of the part's state, Delete removes it; nil keeps the statements in memory only.
@@ -292,10 +296,25 @@ func (k *Keeper) ask(node, why string) {
 		delete(k.asking, node)
 		k.mu.Unlock()
 	}()
+	if k.Call != nil && k.Once != nil {
+		first := Ask(k.Once, node, k.now())
+		if first.Answered {
+			k.take(first)
+			return
+		}
+		k.settle(first, why)
+		why += "; the kept call asks on after: " + first.Words
+	}
 	s := Statement{Node: node, AskedAt: k.now().UTC(), From: FromNone, Words: "nothing asks the verb"}
 	if k.Call != nil {
 		s = Ask(k.Call, node, k.now())
 	}
+	k.settle(s, why)
+}
+
+// settle takes s, read from the node's record in its place where the engine did not answer.
+func (k *Keeper) settle(s Statement, why string) {
+	node := s.Node
 	if s.From != FromVerb && k.Fallback != nil {
 		if reads, ok := k.Fallback(node); ok {
 			s.ManifestReads, s.From = slices.Clone(reads), FromRecord
diff --git a/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads_test.go b/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads_test.go
index 135c660..271d491 100644
--- a/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads_test.go
+++ b/go/clients/nodeengineclient/enginereads/enginereads_test.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package enginereads
 import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -55,6 +56,21 @@ func TestTheAnswerAndTheEventAreJudged(t *testing.T) {
 	if p := k.Present([]string{"ace", "g14"}); len(p["ace"]) != 1 || len(p["g14"]) != 1 || calls["ace"] != 2 || calls["g14"] != 1 {
 		t.Errorf("after the bind: present %v, calls %v", p, calls)
 	}
+	// Review round 1 (ADR 0668 §3): a node whose engine answers nothing reads as its record at the first fault of the call
+	// made once, while the kept call asks on; what the kept call answers then stands.
+	var during Statement
+	f := &Keeper{Sync: true, Fallback: func(string) ([]string, bool) { return []string{"r.s"}, true },
+		Once: func(string, string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+			return nil, errors.New("nats: no responders available for request")
+		}}
+	f.Call = func(node, _ string, _ any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+		during = f.Statements()[node]
+		return json.RawMessage(`{"v":1,"node":"` + node + `","manifest-reads":["a.b"],"stated-at":"` + at + `"}`), nil
+	}
+	f.AskNode("g14", "the first view")
+	if during.From != FromRecord || during.Answered || f.Statements()["g14"].From != FromVerb {
+		t.Errorf("while the kept call asked g14 read %+v; after it %+v", during, f.Statements()["g14"])
+	}
 	if Verb != "manifest-reads" || Event != "manifest-reads-changed" || Consumes != "node-engine.manifest-reads-changed" || Invoke != "seat:node-engine.manifest-reads" {
 		t.Errorf("the names are %s %s %s %s", Verb, Event, Consumes, Invoke)
 	}