diff --git a/cmd/mesh-host/found.go b/cmd/mesh-host/found.go
index 2301fb6..eeebed0 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-host/found.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-host/found.go
@@ -68,14 +68,23 @@ func foundDirectories(known store.State) []store.Applied {
 // known (novox/hq ADR 0272): typed on the control-node, from the operator's own account. The directory's
 // path is the resource's target beside the reason, never in it: the controller says a reason on the
 // operator's channel, which withholds a path (ADR 0234 §6), and keeps the target as evidence.
+//
+// From the lease write, heard as the engine hears it (meshTrust), the line has no answerer: the way out is the node
+// seat's hand-over with the directory's path, which asks the operator on their channel (novox/hq ADR 0563 §5).
 func handOverLine() string {
 	node, _ := foundNode.Load().(string)
 	if node == "" {
 		node = "<node>"
 	}
+	if t := foundTrust.Load(); t != nil && t.HandedAway() {
+		return fmt.Sprintf("`%s/node-engine.hand-over` with the directory's path, then your yes on your channel", node)
+	}
 	return fmt.Sprintf("`nox node hand-over %s <directory>` on the control-node", node)
 }
 
+// foundTrust is what the engine trusts, whose lease decides the way out a directory used as found names.
+var foundTrust atomic.Pointer[meshTrust]
+
 // withFoundDirectories adds to a statement every directory used as found, as its module's resource of kind
 // directory, unhealthy: the reason names its owner and mode as they are now, what was declared, and the line
 // that hands it over. The path is the target, which the controller keeps as evidence.
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-host/found_test.go b/cmd/mesh-host/found_test.go
index 4a13d2c..f756bfc 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-host/found_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-host/found_test.go
@@ -40,6 +40,21 @@ func TestAFoundDirectoryIsStatedUnhealthy(t *testing.T) {
 		strings.Contains(r.Reason, "mesh-host") || strings.Contains(r.Reason, dir) {
 		t.Fatalf("the way out is not the operator's line, or carries the path: %q", r.Reason)
 	}
+	// ADR 0563 §5: from the lease write the remedy is the node seat's hand-over, answered on the operator's channel, and
+	// no longer the controller's terminal line; the lease is the one the engine hears.
+	handed := newMeshTrust(nil)
+	handed.handedAway = true
+	foundTrust.Store(handed)
+	if r := withFoundDirectories(&link.Health{}, foundDirectories(known)).Resources[0]; !strings.Contains(r.Reason,
+		"`laptop/node-engine.hand-over`") || strings.Contains(r.Reason, "nox node hand-over") || strings.Contains(r.Reason, dir) {
+		t.Fatalf("after the lease write the way out is %q", r.Reason)
+	}
+	foundTrust.Store(newMeshTrust(nil))
+	if r := withFoundDirectories(&link.Health{}, foundDirectories(known)).Resources[0]; !strings.Contains(r.Reason,
+		"`nox node hand-over laptop <directory>`") {
+		t.Fatalf("while the controller holds its lease the way out is %q", r.Reason)
+	}
+	foundTrust.Store((*meshTrust)(nil))
 	foundNode.Store("")
 	if r := withFoundDirectories(&link.Health{}, foundDirectories(known)).Resources[0]; !strings.Contains(r.Reason,
 		"`nox node hand-over <node> <directory>`") {
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-host/main.go b/cmd/mesh-host/main.go
index c7efd1e..1b6289a 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-host/main.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-host/main.go
@@ -1108,6 +1108,8 @@ func runLink(ctx context.Context, opts options) error {
 	// What this engine trusts a mesh signature from: the controller's key until its lease is handed away, and the vault's
 	// once read from its signers (novox/hq ADR 0550 §2).
 	trust := newMeshTrust(mine.Membership.Signer)
+	// And the way out a directory used as found names follows the lease it hears (novox/hq ADR 0563 §5).
+	foundTrust.Store(trust)
 	queue := &link.Session{
 		Membership: membership,
 		// And the public halves and certificate its record says (novox/hq ADR 0555 §3), read at each facts report.
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-host/trust.go b/cmd/mesh-host/trust.go
index 61d37fd..e8400cd 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-host/trust.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-host/trust.go
@@ -65,6 +65,16 @@ func (t *meshTrust) Controller() ed25519.PublicKey {
 	return t.controller
 }
 
+// HandedAway says the controller's lease was handed away, as heard on the lease key.
+func (t *meshTrust) HandedAway() bool {
+	if t == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	t.mu.Lock()
+	defer t.mu.Unlock()
+	return t.handedAway
+}
+
 // Signers are the keys a mesh signature is verified against now: the controller's while it holds the lease, and the
 // vault's once read.
 func (t *meshTrust) Signers() []delivery.Signer {