diff --git a/src/GameCult.Caching/Contracts/cultcache-store-composition.md b/src/GameCult.Caching/Contracts/cultcache-store-composition.md
index d2c3bbeb..2d9894ab 100644
--- a/src/GameCult.Caching/Contracts/cultcache-store-composition.md
+++ b/src/GameCult.Caching/Contracts/cultcache-store-composition.md
@@ -144,11 +144,14 @@ which route wrote it.
   that cache's gate as its own lock, so a store's load callback into the cache
   cannot take the two out of order; a cacheless store takes its own gate. The
   store reads which one applies, takes it, and checks the answer again under it:
-  `Cache` is written only by the attach, holding both gates, so under the cache's
-  gate `Cache` naming that cache cannot change, and under the store's gate it
-  cannot change at all. A call whose guess went stale (it queued on a cache that
-  then failed to attach, or on a store that then gained a cache) releases and
-  retries; a cacheless write that finds a cache is refused in that same hold. A
+  `Cache` is written only by the attach, holding both gates, once and after its
+  pull has succeeded (a failed attach never shows it, and nothing detaches), so
+  under the cache's gate `Cache` naming that cache cannot change, and under the
+  store's gate it cannot change at all. The pull reads the registry and the codec
+  the attach lent the store, not `Cache`. A call whose guess went stale (it
+  guessed no cache and the store then gained one) releases and retries once, so a
+  call makes at most two passes; a cacheless write that finds a cache is refused
+  in that same hold. A
   store must not call `Loaded` while holding its own lock outside the cache's
   hold.
 - A journal runs under the cache's gate, so a slow journal slows every writer of
diff --git a/src/GameCult.Caching/CultCache.cs b/src/GameCult.Caching/CultCache.cs
index 1b6b2a91..3840c42c 100644
--- a/src/GameCult.Caching/CultCache.cs
+++ b/src/GameCult.Caching/CultCache.cs
@@ -2261,9 +2261,10 @@ namespace GameCult.Caching
         {
             if (store == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(store));
             homes ??= Array.Empty<Type>();
-            // The only writer of store.Cache, and it writes it only while holding the cache's gate and the store's, the failure path that
-            // resets Cache included: under the cache's gate Cache == this cache cannot change, and under the store's gate Cache cannot
-            // change at all. A store call that guessed wrong waits on whichever gate it took, finds the answer changed and retries.
+            // The only writer of store.Cache, and it writes it once, last, holding the cache's gate and the store's, after the pull has
+            // succeeded: a failed attach never publishes it, and there is no detach, so under the cache's gate Cache == this cache cannot
+            // change, and under the store's gate Cache cannot change at all. A store call that guessed null waits on the store's gate, finds
+            // the cache published and retries once.
             Held(() => store.UnderStoreGate(() =>
             {
                 if (store.Cache != null)