diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/main_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/main_test.go
index 7e8ab4b3..a3f306da 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/main_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/main_test.go
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ import (
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/process"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/takein"
+
 	"mesh-delivery-watchman/internal/watch"
 
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
@@ -77,6 +79,34 @@ func TestRunNeedsItsCredential(t *testing.T) { // 1135/AC6
 	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "MESH_BROKER_FILE") {
 		t.Fatalf("run = %v, want a refusal naming MESH_BROKER_FILE", err)
 	}
+	t.Run("1966/AC195-5: a seed indexer_pending could not answer, or answered unreadably, ends nothing", func(t *testing.T) {
+		for name, call := range map[string]func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error){
+			"cannot be asked": func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return nil, errors.New("no answer") },
+			"unreadable":      func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return json.RawMessage(`{"waits":`), nil },
+		} {
+			out := &findingsOut{findings: map[string]bool{}}
+			w := watch.New(out, time.Now)
+			const key = "m.00000000000000000042"
+			old := watch.Finding{Scope: watch.ScopeDelivery, ID: key, Kind: watch.KindTakeInWaits, Severity: watch.Warning, Source: "take-in",
+				Since: time.Now().Add(-3 * time.Hour), Summary: "held", Said: "held", Headline: "held", Explanation: "held", Needs: "a take-in"}
+			value, err := watch.EncodeFinding(old)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			out.findings[old.Key()] = true
+			w.SeedFinding(old.Key(), value)
+			body, err := takein.EncodeTakeIn(takein.TakeIn{Kind: takein.TakeInPending, Key: "m.00000000000000000043", What: takein.TakeInRevision, Since: time.Now(), WaitsFor: "src2:x",
+				Merges: []takein.Merge{{Repository: "novox/a", Number: 1, Merge: "c0ffee"}}})
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			w.TakeIn(takein.TakeInPendingEvent, body)
+			seedTakeIn(w, call, func(string, ...any) {})
+			if !out.findings[old.Key()] || out.pulseDeletes != 0 {
+				t.Errorf("%s: finding stands %v, signals ended %d: want the previous run's finding and the held wait kept", name, out.findings[old.Key()], out.pulseDeletes)
+			}
+		}
+	})
 	t.Run("A2j: a want stood since the assigner's bus wrote it, through the first view", func(t *testing.T) {
 		// The watchman's want wait starts at the entry's time (createdOr): through mesh-sdk's views.ProcessReader it is
 		// the time the owner's bus wrote the key, never the watchman's start.
@@ -113,11 +143,14 @@ type refusingBus struct{ err error }
 func (r refusingBus) KeyValue(context.Context, string) (jetstream.KeyValue, error) { return nil, r.err }
 
 // findingsOut keeps which findings stand.
-type findingsOut struct{ findings map[string]bool }
+type findingsOut struct {
+	findings     map[string]bool
+	pulseDeletes int
+}
 
 func (o *findingsOut) PutPresence(string, bool) error               { return nil }
 func (o *findingsOut) PutPulse(string, []byte, time.Duration) error { return nil }
-func (o *findingsOut) DeletePulse(string) error                     { return nil }
+func (o *findingsOut) DeletePulse(string) error                     { o.pulseDeletes++; return nil }
 func (o *findingsOut) PutStuck(string, []byte) error                { return nil }
 func (o *findingsOut) PutFinding(key string, _ []byte) error        { o.findings[key] = true; return nil }
 func (o *findingsOut) DeleteFinding(key string) error               { delete(o.findings, key); return nil }