The blind spot was not where the hold sat. No scenario ever let a timeout
finish a poll, because both ended their waits with a close, so the duration
governed nothing anyone could see. A scenario that polls an idle runtime and
measures elapsed against what it asked kills all three constants, and it asks
twice at values whose bands do not overlap, because one value cannot tell a
bridge honouring the host from one waiting on that same number of its own.
The probe that reached the two-phase poll through a closed port is committed,
the wake finally has the entry the table had been claiming, and a surviving
mutant is argued equivalent and handed to Soul rather than swapped for an
easier one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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