A follower passed over an event heard before its first view and dropped a gap heard while an ask ran, so a quiet owner left the reader behind until a further event. It now keeps the highest revision heard and, when an ask ends short of it, asks again on a pause of its own until it holds it. The status a read tool shows followed only the asks, so it said a reader was behind that was not; it follows the events too. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfFSnn24M3GcqttoU7i