diff --git a/go/process/call.go b/go/process/call.go
index 6579ea7..d3b89a0 100644
--- a/go/process/call.go
+++ b/go/process/call.go
@@ -51,6 +51,57 @@ func (c *Conn) CallOn(node, key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
 	return c.callOn(called, fallback, body)
 }
 
+// CallKept is Call for a call whose answer the caller keeps and which is safe to make again (a read, or a write the
+// callee deduplicates): it is asked again through a transport fault, a timeout or no responders, whether or not the bus
+// is blacked out, until it is answered or busretry.Bound has passed (novox/hq ADR 0668, extending ADR 0615 §6; issue
+// 1966). A callee that restarts answers no one for seconds; Call fails that at once. The caller keeps a call still
+// unanswered past the bound as a wait of its own, and makes it again on the callee's event or its consumer's bind.
+func (c *Conn) CallKept(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	called, fallback, err := callSubjectsOn(key, "", c.callerToken())
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return c.callKeptOn(called, fallback, body)
+}
+
+// CallKeptOn is CallKept to the tool or seat verb of one named machine, as CallOn is Call's.
+func (c *Conn) CallKeptOn(node, key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	if err := calladdress.CheckNode(node); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	called, fallback, err := callSubjectsOn(key, node, c.callerToken())
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return c.callKeptOn(called, fallback, body)
+}
+
+func (c *Conn) callKeptOn(called, fallback string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	data, err := json.Marshal(body)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return callKeptWith(c.request, called, fallback, data)
+}
+
+// callKeptWith is callWith for a kept call: busretry.DoRepeatable with no blackout probe.
+func callKeptWith(request func(string, []byte) (json.RawMessage, error), called, fallback string,
+	data []byte) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	return busretry.DoRepeatable("the call on "+fallback, askBoth(request, called, fallback, data), nil)
+}
+
+// askBoth asks called, then fallback when nothing answers it.
+func askBoth(request func(string, []byte) (json.RawMessage, error), called, fallback string,
+	data []byte) func() (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	return func() (json.RawMessage, error) {
+		result, err := request(called, data)
+		if errors.Is(err, nats.ErrNoResponders) {
+			result, err = request(fallback, data)
+		}
+		return result, err
+	}
+}
+
 // callOn asks called, then fallback when nothing answers it; while the bus itself answers nothing (a user-list reload
 // drops the account's imports for a few seconds, busretry) both are asked again, within busretry.Bound. A call nobody
 // answers on a bus that answers is not asked again: its callee is not running. A call that may have been delivered (a
@@ -67,13 +118,7 @@ func (c *Conn) callOn(called, fallback string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error
 // callee's answer is *busretry.Answered, whatever its words, so a call that reached its callee is never asked again.
 func callWith(request func(string, []byte) (json.RawMessage, error), blackout func() bool, called, fallback string,
 	data []byte) (json.RawMessage, error) {
-	return busretry.Do("the call on "+fallback, func() (json.RawMessage, error) {
-		result, err := request(called, data)
-		if errors.Is(err, nats.ErrNoResponders) {
-			result, err = request(fallback, data)
-		}
-		return result, err
-	}, blackout)
+	return busretry.Do("the call on "+fallback, askBoth(request, called, fallback, data), blackout)
 }
 
 // answered is the error a callee answered with: delivered, never asked again (busretry.Answered).
diff --git a/go/process/call_test.go b/go/process/call_test.go
index 1f4fb02..e4eefaf 100644
--- a/go/process/call_test.go
+++ b/go/process/call_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package process
 
 import (
+	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
@@ -108,17 +109,28 @@ func TestACallIsAskedAgainOnlyWhenItReachedNoOne(t *testing.T) {
 		name   string
 		answer []error // per ask; the last repeats
 		asks   int
+		kept   bool // CallKept (novox/hq ADR 0668; issue 1966)
 	}{
-		{"a callee answers jetstream not enabled: asked once", []error{answered("jetstream not enabled")}, 1},
-		{"a callee answers no responders in its words: asked once", []error{answered("nats: no responders available for request")}, 1},
-		{"no responders on either subject, then an answer", []error{nats.ErrNoResponders, nats.ErrNoResponders, nil}, 3},
+		{"a callee answers jetstream not enabled: asked once", []error{answered("jetstream not enabled")}, 1, false},
+		{"a callee answers no responders in its words: asked once", []error{answered("nats: no responders available for request")}, 1, false},
+		{"no responders on either subject, then an answer", []error{nats.ErrNoResponders, nats.ErrNoResponders, nil}, 3, false},
+		{"a timeout may have been delivered: Call asks once", []error{context.DeadlineExceeded, nil}, 1, false},
+		{"kept: no responders on a bus that answers (a callee restarting), then an answer", []error{nats.ErrNoResponders, nats.ErrNoResponders, nil}, 3, true},
+		{"kept: a timeout, then an answer", []error{context.DeadlineExceeded, nil}, 2, true},
+		{"kept: a callee's answer is asked once", []error{answered("nats: timeout")}, 1, true},
 	} {
 		asks := 0
-		_, err := callWith(func(string, []byte) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+		request := func(string, []byte) (json.RawMessage, error) {
 			e := row.answer[min(asks, len(row.answer)-1)]
 			asks++
 			return json.RawMessage(`{}`), e
-		}, func() bool { return true }, "called", "fallback", nil)
+		}
+		var err error
+		if row.kept {
+			_, err = callKeptWith(request, "called", "fallback", nil)
+		} else {
+			_, err = callWith(request, func() bool { return true }, "called", "fallback", nil)
+		}
 		if asks != row.asks {
 			t.Errorf("%s: asked %d times (%v), want %d", row.name, asks, err, row.asks)
 		}