diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient/branches.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient/branches.go
index bfe073b1..573f4d81 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient/branches.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient/branches.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	seat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk/sourcebranches"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/busretry"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/keys"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
 )
@@ -392,7 +393,8 @@ func (e *Entries) Rows() []EntryRow {
 }
 
 // ask reads fingerprint's entry once. A call that failed to reach the holder leaves the entry asked, with its reason;
-// the holder's own answer that it holds none is `not-found`.
+// the holder's own answer that it holds none is `not-found`, whether the call gives it in the reply or, as a process's
+// call does, as its error (busretry.Answered).
 func (e *Entries) ask(_ context.Context, fingerprint string) {
 	raw, err := e.call(EntryVerb, seat.EntryInput{Fingerprint: fingerprint})
 	var row EntryRow
@@ -402,7 +404,11 @@ func (e *Entries) ask(_ context.Context, fingerprint string) {
 		e.mu.Unlock()
 		return
 	}
+	var holderSaid *busretry.Answered
 	switch {
+	case errors.As(err, &holderSaid):
+		// A process's call gives the holder's own answer as its error: it holds none.
+		cur.State, cur.Since, cur.Detail = EntryNotFound, e.now(), holderSaid.Words
 	case err != nil:
 		cur.Detail = err.Error()
 		e.mu.Unlock()
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient/branches_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient/branches_test.go
index 6e0f733e..2dfade9d 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient/branches_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient/branches_test.go
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ import (
 
 	seat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk/sourcebranches"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/busretry"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
 )
 
 // fakeWiring is a part's reader: it keeps the views adopted, by `<owner>.<state>`, and says each drop.
@@ -239,4 +241,30 @@ func TestEntriesAreAskedOnceAnsweredOrNotFound(t *testing.T) {
 	if err := e.Again(ctx, "src2:a"); err != nil || seats.entryAsk != 3 {
 		t.Fatalf("again: %v, asks %d", err, seats.entryAsk)
 	}
+	// A process's call gives the holder's answer that it holds none as its error (busretry.Answered): not-found too, and
+	// the part is told, so a pass waiting on it runs (design 47 G §614, §298); a call that reached no holder stays asked.
+	viaConn := NewEntries(func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+		return nil, &busretry.Answered{Words: "no catalog entry has the fingerprint src2:old"}
+	})
+	toldConn := make(chan EntryRow, 2)
+	viaConn.Changed = func(r EntryRow) { toldConn <- r }
+	viaConn.Need(ctx, "src2:old")
+	if err := viaConn.Again(ctx, "src2:old"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if rows := viaConn.Rows(); len(rows) != 1 || rows[0].State != EntryNotFound || rows[0].Detail == "" || len(toldConn) == 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("the holder's answer through a process's call: rows %+v, told %d", rows, len(toldConn))
+	}
+	unreached := NewEntries(func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return nil, nats.ErrNoResponders })
+	unreached.Changed = func(r EntryRow) { t.Errorf("a call that reached no holder told %+v", r) }
+	if err := unreached.Again(ctx, "src2:x"); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("again of an entry never needed answers no error")
+	}
+	unreached.Need(ctx, "src2:x")
+	if err := unreached.Again(ctx, "src2:x"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if rows := unreached.Rows(); len(rows) != 1 || rows[0].State != EntryAsked || rows[0].Detail == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("a call that reached no holder: rows %+v", rows)
+	}
 }