diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/GuildRegistrarFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/GuildRegistrarFrame.xml
index 627dea98..42df2fbc 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/GuildRegistrarFrame.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/GuildRegistrarFrame.xml
@@ -119,8 +119,17 @@
          `BenillaQuestTitleButtonTemplate` because that one hardwires `QuestTitleButton_OnClick()`
          and would drag this window's load order behind the questgiver's for a fifteen-line shape.
          Same LEFT-anchored title as that template, and for the same reason: the round bullet is
-         cell-centred, so a TOPLEFT-anchored label rides above it (QuestFrame.xml's own note). -->
-    <Button name="BenillaGuildRegistrarServiceTemplate" virtual="true" hidden="true">
+         cell-centred, so a TOPLEFT-anchored label rides above it (QuestFrame.xml's own note).
+
+         **NOT `hidden="true"`, and that is the whole difference from the template it is modelled
+         on.** `BenillaQuestTitleButtonTemplate` carries `hidden` because the quest list is a POOL:
+         its rows are hidden by default and `:Show()`n one at a time as the greeting fills. These
+         two rows are STATIC — the registrar's services never change, nothing ever calls `:Show()`
+         on them — so inheriting `hidden` left both permanently invisible and the window came up as
+         a bare "Available Services" heading over blank parchment. The reference's own
+         `QuestTitleButtonTemplate` (QuestFrameTemplates.xml l.174) has no `hidden` either; the
+         attribute was copied across with the shape. -->
+    <Button name="BenillaGuildRegistrarServiceTemplate" virtual="true">
         <Size><AbsDimension x="285" y="16"/></Size>
         <Layers>
             <Layer level="BACKGROUND">
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/HelpFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/HelpFrame.xml
index 691cdc98..9850d9e9 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/HelpFrame.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/HelpFrame.xml
@@ -155,6 +155,34 @@
             return fallback or ""
         end
 
+        -- ── Retail-only text, retired (director's call, 2026-08-29) ────────────────────────────
+        -- The Home page is entirely GlobalStrings, executed off the player's own chain — so these
+        -- are Blizzard's 2006 strings, and three of them point at a company that stopped answering
+        -- in 2006. Overridden here, BEFORE the markup below resolves its global-string attributes
+        -- (the loader walks a document's top-level items in order, and `resolve_text` reads the
+        -- live global), which is why this sits above the frames rather than in an OnLoad.
+        --
+        -- Do not spell a key-lookup attribute out in prose anywhere in this file:
+        -- `every_shipped_text_attribute_answers_against_the_real_global_strings` sweeps the raw
+        -- file for that attribute and would try to resolve the example as a real key.
+        --
+        -- Deliberately a SHORT list. Everything else on the page still reads true on any server
+        -- with GMs — what a GM will and will not help with is a policy, not a URL, and rewriting
+        -- policy prose we did not author would be a bigger change than the one asked for.
+        --
+        --   PVP_POLICY_URL        a dead http:// link to worldofwarcraft.com/policy/pvp.shtml.
+        --   HELPFRAME_HOME_ISSUE3 its last sentence exists only to introduce that link, so it goes
+        --                         with it; the PvP guidance before it is kept verbatim.
+        --   HELPFRAME_HOME_TEXT2  "utilise the forums and the website" + two more dead links.
+        --
+        -- Emptying the two FontStrings is enough: the page is one anchor chain (each element hangs
+        -- off the one above), so the button simply rides up into the space they leave.
+        PVP_POLICY_URL = ""
+        HELPFRAME_HOME_TEXT2 = ""
+        HELPFRAME_HOME_ISSUE3 = "Most PVP issues can be resolved through the PVP game mechanics. "
+            .. "GM's will not be able to assist in many cases.  The exceptions to this rule are "
+            .. "any behaviors that fall under the harassment policy of the realm you are playing on."
+
         -- ── Constants (ref-lua l.1-2, l.160-166) ────────────────────────────────────────────────
         HELPFRAME_BULLET_SPACING = -3         -- ref-lua l.1
         HELPFRAME_SECTION_SPACING = -20       -- ref-lua l.2
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/PetStable.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/PetStable.xml
index a8522d2f..531477a6 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/PetStable.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/PetStable.xml
@@ -32,13 +32,11 @@
             here, exactly as `PetPaperDollFrame.xml` records for its own pane. `Model_RotateLeft`/
             `Model_RotateRight` (xml l.222/241) become `BenillaPaperDollModel_RotateLeft`/`_Right`,
             the shared helpers `CharacterFrame.xml` defines.
-          - **The booth itself does not exist yet** (the one open dependency): there is no
-            `"stable"` slot in `crates/benilla-app/src/portrait` and no `BenillaStableModel_SetFacing` yaw
-            binding beside the paperdoll/petdoll/inspect three. `BenillaSetBoothTexture` accepts any
-            token and simply resolves to no image, so the pane loads and lays out correctly and
-            draws nothing until the app side lands; the yaw goes through the forwarding shim below
-            so a rotate click cannot raise on a nil global in the meantime. Both are app-side work,
-            deliberately not faked here.
+          - The pane's booth is the `"stable"` slot in `crates/benilla-app/src/portrait`, and its yaw
+            binding is `BenillaStableModel_SetFacing`, the fourth beside the paperdoll/petdoll/
+            inspect three. The app resolves `GetSelectedStablePet()`'s slot into either the live
+            pet's entity or — for a stabled or dismissed pet, which has no world object at all —
+            the creature query's `CreatureDisplayInfo` id, and the booth mirrors whichever it got.
           - **`GetPetIcon()` does not exist in this client** (reference/1.12-globals.tsv has it as
             an engine global; benilla has never needed it). `PetStable_Update` calls it at lua l.51
             and l.161-162 and it is transcribed verbatim rather than guarded: the window's current
@@ -85,17 +83,14 @@
         -- iterate 1..NUM_PET_STABLE_SLOTS and handle 0 on its own.
         NUM_PET_STABLE_SLOTS = 2
 
-        -- ── The model pane's yaw (header, deferral 2) ────────────────────────────────────────────
+        -- ── The model pane's yaw ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
         -- Every booth pane names its own engine yaw binding in `frame.setFacing`
         -- (`BenillaPaperDollModel_SetFacing`, `BenillaPetPaperDollModel_SetFacing`,
-        -- `BenillaInspectModel_SetFacing`); the stable booth's twin is not built yet. This forwards
-        -- to it the moment it exists and swallows the yaw until then, so `BenillaPaperDollModel_OnLoad`'s
-        -- opening `frame.setFacing(0.61)` and every rotate click stay callable. It is the ONE line
-        -- in this file that changes when the binding lands.
+        -- `BenillaInspectModel_SetFacing`); this pane's is `BenillaStableModel_SetFacing`. The
+        -- named forwarder stays because `frame.setFacing` wants a plain function value and this
+        -- file's OnLoad is where the pane's own name for it belongs.
         function BenillaPetStableModel_SetFacing(radians)
-            if BenillaStableModel_SetFacing then
-                BenillaStableModel_SetFacing(radians)
-            end
+            BenillaStableModel_SetFacing(radians)
         end
 
         -- ── The window ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -628,9 +623,8 @@
                     <!-- The pane's booth + its yaw. `BenillaPaperDollModel_OnLoad` seeds the
                          reference's own 0.61 default facing and pushes it through `setFacing`; the
                          OnUpdate is the shared held-button continuous spin. The booth token is
-                         "stable" and the yaw goes through this file's forwarding shim — neither the
-                         slot nor the binding exists app-side yet (header, deferral 2), so the pane
-                         lays out and stays inert rather than drawing another window's subject. -->
+                         "stable" and the yaw goes through this file's named forwarder onto
+                         `BenillaStableModel_SetFacing`. -->
                     <OnLoad>
                         this.setFacing = BenillaPetStableModel_SetFacing
                         BenillaPaperDollModel_OnLoad(this)
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs
index 8bfd82e7..19d0b252 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs
@@ -1415,6 +1415,7 @@ fn seed_bag_window(
     };
     let slot = |disp: u32, count: u32, id: u32, name: &str, quality: u32| {
         benilla_ui::script::ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             durability: None,
             bar_placeable: true,
             texture: icon(disp),
@@ -1505,6 +1506,7 @@ fn seed_equipped_bags(
     };
     let slot =
         |disp: u32, count: u32, name: &str, quality: u32| benilla_ui::script::ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             durability: None,
             bar_placeable: true,
             texture: icon(disp),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/probe_charter.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/probe_charter.rs
index e9a8c490..1c38878e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/probe_charter.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/probe_charter.rs
@@ -336,6 +336,39 @@ fn vm_icon_type(script: &UiScript, pos: usize) -> String {
 /// The texture path `BENILLA_GOSSIP_ICONS.petition` resolves to in the live VM — `""` if the table
 /// or the key is missing, which would mean the row draws the fallback bubble whatever the app
 /// mapped ([`super::probe_binder`]'s second half of the same assert).
+/// The charter's own bag tooltip, line by line — `SetBagItem` on the slot the buy landed in, read
+/// back out of the live VM.
+///
+/// Reported in step 8's detail rather than asserted, for §7's reason: the wording and the ORDER are
+/// a unit test's job, and what a live run adds is only that the petition record travels from the
+/// query response into the bag slot's pushed view at all.
+fn charter_tooltip_lines(script: &UiScript, pos: Option<(i64, u32)>) -> Vec<String> {
+    let Some((bag, slot)) = pos else {
+        return Vec::new();
+    };
+    let chunk = format!(
+        r#"
+        local a = getglobal("BenillaProbeTipAnchor")
+        if not a then
+            a = CreateFrame("Button", "BenillaProbeTipAnchor")
+            a:SetPoint("CENTER", 0, 0); a:SetSize(10, 10)
+        end
+        GameTooltip:SetOwner(a, "ANCHOR_RIGHT")
+        GameTooltip:SetBagItem({bag}, {slot})
+        local out = {{}}
+        for i = 1, GameTooltip:NumLines() do
+            local L = getglobal("GameTooltipTextLeft" .. i)
+            if L then table.insert(out, L:GetText() or "") end
+        end
+        return table.concat(out, " | ")
+    "#
+    );
+    script
+        .eval::<String>(&chunk)
+        .map(|s| s.split(" | ").map(str::to_string).collect())
+        .unwrap_or_default()
+}
+
 fn vm_petition_texture(script: &UiScript) -> String {
     script
         .eval::<String>("return (BENILLA_GOSSIP_ICONS and BENILLA_GOSSIP_ICONS.petition) or \"\"")
@@ -1061,14 +1094,32 @@ fn charter_probe(
                 return;
             }
             let title = vm_petition_str(&script, 2);
-            if title == probe.renamed {
+            // The bag tooltip has to reach the SAME name, not merely be non-empty. It is fed by a
+            // different path — the container snapshot, whose rebuild is gated (decision 1439) —
+            // so the two can disagree, and requiring convergence is what proves the rename's
+            // record patch reaches the gate rather than only the window. Held inside the step's
+            // own timeout: a tooltip that never catches up FAILs here rather than being reported
+            // as a curiosity.
+            let tip = charter_tooltip_lines(
+                &script,
+                probe.charter.and_then(|(b, sl, _)| lua_bag_pos(b, sl)),
+            );
+            let tip_caught_up = tip.iter().any(|l| l.contains(&probe.renamed));
+            if title == probe.renamed && tip_caught_up {
                 let bought = probe.bought.clone();
+                // The item TOOLTIP's line 3 while we are here — the charter's guild name and
+                // master, which the director reported missing. Reported, not asserted: the plate's
+                // wording and placement are pinned by the unit test
+                // (`charter_lines_sit_between_the_name_and_the_signable_line`); what only a live
+                // run can show is that the petition record actually reaches the bag slot's view,
+                // which is a different question from whether the renderer would print it.
                 probe.pass(
                     8,
                     "rename",
                     format!(
                         "the title changed from {bought:?} to {title:?} — MSG_PETITION_RENAME's \
-                         echo arrived and patched the cached record in place"
+                         echo arrived and patched the cached record in place; the bag tooltip \
+                         reads {tip:?}"
                     ),
                 );
                 probe.phase = Phase::Destroying {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/probes/world_census.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/probes/world_census.rs
index 1f67a910..f9521868 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/probes/world_census.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/probes/world_census.rs
@@ -45,23 +45,24 @@ fn fire_node_probe(world: &mut World) {
         .iter(world)
         .next()
         .map_or(1.0, bevy::window::Window::scale_factor);
+    // **`UiGlobalTransform`, not `GlobalTransform`.** Bevy moved UI onto its own 2-D transform;
+    // a UI entity no longer carries `GlobalTransform` at all, so the old query matched *nothing*
+    // and this probe answered "0 nodes" — a plausible-looking reading rather than a failure —
+    // for every run since that upgrade (found 2026-08-29, reaching for it to check a caret).
     let mut q = world.query::<(
         Entity,
         &bevy::ui::ComputedNode,
-        &GlobalTransform,
+        &bevy::ui::UiGlobalTransform,
         Option<&InheritedVisibility>,
     )>();
-    let rows: Vec<(Entity, Vec2, Vec3, bool)> = q
+    let rows: Vec<(Entity, Vec2, Vec2, bool)> = q
         .iter(world)
-        .map(|(e, node, gt, vis)| {
-            (
-                e,
-                node.size(),
-                gt.translation(),
-                vis.is_none_or(|v| v.get()),
-            )
-        })
+        .map(|(e, node, gt, vis)| (e, node.size(), gt.translation, vis.is_none_or(|v| v.get())))
         .collect();
+    // A zero here is now itself the anomaly — the screen has no UI, or the query has rotted again.
+    if rows.is_empty() {
+        warn!("node probe: NO ui nodes matched — the screen is bare, or this probe has rotted");
+    }
     info!("node probe: {} nodes, scale {scale}", rows.len());
     for (e, size, center, vis) in rows {
         let comps: Vec<String> = world.inspect_entity(e).map_or_else(
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/entities.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/entities.rs
index 20d8c988..4eb3a423 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/entities.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/entities.rs
@@ -354,6 +354,51 @@ impl Creatures {
         })
     }
 
+    /// A built display's **mirror lists** — the same `(PortraitPart, PortraitBillboard)` pair a
+    /// dressed unit's attach-spawned descendants carry, assembled straight from the display cache
+    /// for a creature that has **no world entity at all**: the stable window's stabled pet
+    /// ([`crate::portrait::PortraitStandIn`]).
+    ///
+    /// The split is [`crate::entities::attach::preview`]'s `assemble_pet` law verbatim — every
+    /// batch of the model, camera-facing ones separated out — because it is the same question:
+    /// only the character compositor selects among geosets, and a creature is not a character
+    /// model, so the world's creature path draws every batch of a beast the same way. The
+    /// billboards seat at [`crate::portrait::PortraitSeat::Body`] (the model's own rigged batch:
+    /// its bone's booth joint already bakes the pivot, the 0130 rig identity) with `attach: None`,
+    /// which is exactly what a host model's own batch is.
+    ///
+    /// `None` while the display's model is still loading — the same gate [`Self::display_rig`] and
+    /// [`Self::display_anchors`] apply, so all three become available together.
+    pub(crate) fn display_mirror(
+        &self,
+        display_id: u32,
+    ) -> Option<(
+        Vec<crate::portrait::PortraitPart>,
+        Vec<crate::portrait::PortraitBillboard>,
+    )> {
+        let parts = self.models.get(&display_id)?.parts.as_deref()?;
+        let mut meshes = Vec::new();
+        let mut cards = Vec::new();
+        for part in parts {
+            match &part.billboard {
+                Some(info) => cards.push(crate::portrait::PortraitBillboard {
+                    mesh: part.mesh.clone(),
+                    material: part.material.clone(),
+                    bone: info.bone,
+                    seat: crate::portrait::PortraitSeat::Body,
+                    kind: info.kind,
+                    attach: None,
+                }),
+                None => meshes.push(crate::portrait::PortraitPart {
+                    static_mesh: part.mesh.clone(),
+                    skinned_mesh: part.skinned_mesh.clone(),
+                    material: part.material.clone(),
+                }),
+            }
+        }
+        Some((meshes, cards))
+    }
+
     /// A built display's **booth rig** — what the portrait booth needs to pose a fresh instance at
     /// Stand like the ref bake (wow-re portrait-render §4 D2: a throwaway instance armed to
     /// Stand/seq-0, not the unit's live world pose): the rest skeleton, the shared inverse bind
@@ -1024,6 +1069,10 @@ fn update_display_models(
     // its model builds with no wire entity (the screens run pre-world, where no NetEntity carries it).
     glue_preview: Option<Res<crate::portrait::GluePreview>>,
     char_create: Option<Res<CharCreate>>,
+    // The stable pane's want (wow-re `stable-master-window.md` §7.1): a stabled pet is a row in the
+    // server's character-pet cache and a `CreatureDisplayInfo` id — there is no wire entity to
+    // carry it, so the booth's own selection is the want.
+    stable_booth: Option<Res<crate::portrait::StableBooth>>,
 ) {
     if !mats.ready() {
         return; // no lighting yet → no materials to build
@@ -1054,6 +1103,15 @@ fn update_display_models(
         }
     }
 
+    // The stable window's selected pet — the same wantless want, and the same `Unit` kind: the
+    // creature query answers with a `CreatureDisplayInfo` id, so it resolves down the plain
+    // creature chain, skins and all. Asked for whenever the pane names one, live pet or not; a
+    // summoned pet's display is already in the scan above, and a repeat is free (the cache is
+    // keyed by display).
+    if let Some(display) = stable_booth.as_deref().and_then(|b| b.display_id) {
+        actives.push((EntityKind::Unit, display));
+    }
+
     for (kind, disp) in actives {
         match kind {
             // Players resolve their body model through the very same creature chain (decision 0041):
@@ -1319,3 +1377,96 @@ mod world_unit_tests {
         );
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod display_mirror_tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::portrait::PortraitSeat;
+
+    /// One synthetic batch — plain, or a camera-facing one on `bone`.
+    fn part(billboard: Option<u16>) -> crate::entities::display::EntityPart {
+        crate::entities::display::EntityPart {
+            mesh: Handle::default(),
+            geometry: std::sync::Arc::new(benilla_formats::RenderSubmesh::default()),
+            aabb: None,
+            skinned_mesh: Some(Handle::default()),
+            welded_billboard: false,
+            material: Handle::default(),
+            material_interior: None,
+            material_interior_bake: None,
+            material_interior_bake_blend: None,
+            fade_blend: None,
+            zfill: None,
+            blend: benilla_formats::ModelBlend::Opaque,
+            additive: false,
+            two_sided: false,
+            geoset_id: 0,
+            char_slot: None,
+            billboard: billboard.map(|bone| benilla_assets::BillboardInfo {
+                pivot: Vec3::ZERO,
+                bone,
+                kind: benilla_formats::BillboardKind::Spherical,
+                scale_anim: None,
+                seq_translations: Vec::new(),
+            }),
+            alpha_anim: None,
+            rgb_anim: None,
+            ground_quad: None,
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn creatures(display_id: u32, dm: crate::entities::display::DisplayModel) -> Creatures {
+        let mut c = Creatures {
+            catalog: Default::default(),
+            models: HashMap::new(),
+        };
+        c.models.insert(display_id, dm);
+        c
+    }
+
+    /// **Every batch the display authored reaches the mirror, split by lane.** This is the same
+    /// failure mode decision 1539's imp filed against the select pet: a display-only assembly that
+    /// reads one field and drops another renders a creature that is *nearly* right, silently. The
+    /// assertion is "everything the cache holds arrives, in the right lane", not a count pinned to
+    /// one model.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_display_mirror_carries_every_batch_and_splits_the_camera_facing_ones() {
+        let mut dm = crate::entities::display::empty_shell();
+        dm.parts = Some(vec![part(None), part(Some(17)), part(None)]);
+        let c = creatures(4449, dm);
+
+        let (parts, cards) = c.display_mirror(4449).expect("the model is built");
+        assert_eq!(parts.len(), 2, "the two plain batches are ordinary parts");
+        assert_eq!(
+            cards.len(),
+            1,
+            "the camera-facing batch is a card, not a part"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(cards[0].bone, 17, "the card keeps its own billboard bone");
+        assert_eq!(
+            cards[0].seat,
+            PortraitSeat::Body,
+            "a creature's own batch is the host model's — its bone's booth joint already bakes the \
+             pivot, so it takes no rider offset"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            cards[0].attach.is_none(),
+            "a batch of the host model itself sits in no M2 attachment node"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            parts.iter().all(|p| p.skinned_mesh.is_some()),
+            "the skinned twin travels — the booth poses it at Stand on its own skeleton"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// The gate that keeps a half-loaded display out of the booth: `display_mirror` answers `None`
+    /// until the parts are built, the same instant [`Creatures::display_rig`] and
+    /// [`Creatures::display_anchors`] start answering — so the stand-in never spawns a subject the
+    /// booth could frame from fabricated bounds.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_display_still_loading_mirrors_nothing() {
+        let c = creatures(4449, crate::entities::display::empty_shell());
+        assert!(c.display_mirror(4449).is_none(), "parts not built yet");
+        assert!(c.display_mirror(1).is_none(), "unknown display");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/glue/widgets.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/glue/widgets.rs
index bcae8988..13174c5d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/glue/widgets.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/glue/widgets.rs
@@ -558,22 +558,54 @@ const CARET_W: f32 = 4.0;
 /// line so it lands at the cursor without anyone measuring text. The ONE caret; every edit box —
 /// [`glue_edit_box`]'s chrome and the delete dialog's ChatInputBorder box — spawns it here, so the
 /// mechanism can never fork back into per-screen `"|"`/`"_"` glyphs.
+///
+/// **The caret is an OVERLAY: it takes no width in the row.** The flex item is zero-wide — a bare
+/// *seam* the row's layout collapses to nothing — and the drawn bar is an absolutely-positioned
+/// child hanging off it, left edge on the seam, so the typed line is one continuous run whatever
+/// the cursor or the selection is doing. It used to be the bar itself, [`CARET_W`] units wide and
+/// in flow, which pushed the text apart at the cursor and — because a select-all moves the whole
+/// string from the `Before` slot to the `Selected` slot, across one caret seam — **shifted the
+/// text bodily to the right the moment a box was focused** (the director's report, 2026-08-29).
+///
+/// This is also what the client does, and the two facts are the same fact: the caret is a
+/// `CSimpleTexture` quad at `drawLayer 3`, anchored LEFT-to-LEFT on the FontString with
+/// `x = W(lineStart → cursor)` — the measured advance of the text before the cursor (wow-re
+/// `rf85-editbox-caret.md` §1, §8, both §5-VERIFIED). A quad anchored *over* the line cannot
+/// displace it, and its left edge sits exactly on the seam flex puts us on. `drawLayer 3` is above
+/// the FontString's `2`, which is the [`ZIndex`] here.
 pub(crate) fn caret_bar<C: Bundle>(
     parent: &mut ChildSpawnerCommands,
     caret: C,
     font_size: f32,
     s: f32,
 ) {
-    parent.spawn((
-        caret,
-        Visibility::Hidden,
-        Node {
-            width: Val::Px(CARET_W * s),
-            height: Val::Px(font_size * EDIT_LINE_HEIGHT * s),
-            ..default()
-        },
-        BackgroundColor(EDIT_TEXT_COLOR),
-    ));
+    parent
+        .spawn((
+            caret,
+            Visibility::Hidden,
+            // The seam: zero-wide, one line tall (the row centres it), and above its siblings.
+            ZIndex(1),
+            Node {
+                width: Val::Px(0.0),
+                height: Val::Px(font_size * EDIT_LINE_HEIGHT * s),
+                ..default()
+            },
+        ))
+        .with_children(|c| {
+            // The drawn bar, out of flow so it costs the row nothing. `Visibility::Inherited` by
+            // default, so blinking the seam blinks the bar.
+            c.spawn((
+                Node {
+                    position_type: PositionType::Absolute,
+                    left: Val::Px(0.0),
+                    top: Val::Px(0.0),
+                    width: Val::Px(CARET_W * s),
+                    height: Val::Px(font_size * EDIT_LINE_HEIGHT * s),
+                    ..default()
+                },
+                BackgroundColor(EDIT_TEXT_COLOR),
+            ));
+        });
 }
 
 /// Which flex item of a glue edit box's text row an entity is.
@@ -584,6 +616,9 @@ pub(crate) fn caret_bar<C: Bundle>(
 /// highlight background permanently; with nothing selected its text is empty, so it has zero width
 /// and paints nothing. Which of the two caret slots is visible follows the cursor, which the box
 /// law keeps at one end of the selection or the other.
+///
+/// **Both caret slots are zero-width seams** ([`caret_bar`]), present or not, so the three text
+/// slots concatenate to one unbroken line: which slot a run of text sits in never moves it.
 #[derive(Component, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Debug)]
 pub(crate) enum GlueFieldPart {
     /// `display[..sel_start]`
@@ -612,6 +647,15 @@ pub(crate) fn paint_glue_field<'a>(
         ),
     >,
 ) {
+    // **The highlight is deliberately NOT gated on `focused`** — `focused` drives the caret alone.
+    // That asymmetry looks like an oversight and is the reference's own: the caret's flush
+    // (`0x77da80`) explicitly hides when `E != [0xcf4dc8]`, while the selection flush (`0x77d950`)
+    // and its geometry worker (`0x77de70`) contain no read of the focus global anywhere, and the
+    // per-frame update calls the flush BEFORE its own focus test. The quads show iff
+    // `start < end` — focus never enters it (wow-re `editbox-selection-focus-law.md` §1-§3,
+    // §5-VERIFIED, asked because this asymmetry looked wrong). An unfocused box that still holds a
+    // selection paints it, and that is correct; the login screen simply never leaves one behind
+    // (`LoginForm::focus` collapses the box it leaves).
     let display = field.display();
     let lo = field.sel_start.min(field.sel_end);
     let hi = field.sel_start.max(field.sel_end);
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/login/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/login/mod.rs
index 04822db7..5cbb88fb 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/login/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/login/mod.rs
@@ -689,20 +689,37 @@ impl Default for LoginForm {
 }
 
 impl LoginForm {
-    /// Give `field` the keyboard **and select everything already in it**.
+    /// Give `field` the keyboard **and select everything already in it** — dropping the selection
+    /// on the box being left.
     ///
-    /// **A knowing divergence** (director's call, 2026-08-28). The reference does neither on a
-    /// click nor a TAB: `CEditBox::OnMouseDown` (`0x77b800`) "focuses unconditionally" and
-    /// `SetFocus` (`0x77e3d0`) only moves the focus — neither highlights (wow-re `ui.md` §1210,
-    /// §1218). But the thing a player does after clicking into a login field is *replace* what is
-    /// there — a remembered account name, a mistyped password — and having to select-all or
-    /// backspace it out first is friction the reference only avoids by being what everyone was
-    /// used to in 2006.
+    /// **A knowing divergence** (director's call, 2026-08-28), and the reference half of it is now
+    /// byte-settled rather than inferred (wow-re `editbox-selection-focus-law.md` §4/§5, §5-VERIFIED,
+    /// dispatched from this work). The reference does the *opposite* on a click: `OnMouseDown`
+    /// (`0x77b800`) hit-tests the click to a byte index, **collapses** the selection onto it
+    /// (`0x77b86f call 0x77ccf0`) and only then calls `SetFocus` — so a fresh click-focus leaves an
+    /// EMPTY selection at the character you clicked. And `SetFocus` itself writes no selection field
+    /// at all; `0x77e3f6` being the only instruction image-wide that grants focus makes *every* focus
+    /// gain selection-neutral, TAB included. Losing focus likewise touches nothing (`0x77af50` raises
+    /// only the cursor dirty bit).
+    ///
+    /// So we diverge in both directions, deliberately: the reference collapses where we select, and
+    /// leaves stale where we collapse. The reason is the same one for both — the thing a player does
+    /// after clicking into a login field is *replace* what is there, a remembered account name or a
+    /// mistyped password, and having to select-all or backspace it out first is friction the
+    /// reference only avoids by being what everyone was used to in 2006.
+    ///
+    /// **A divergence owes both halves.** 1682 shipped only the select; nothing ever unselected,
+    /// so the box you left kept a grey highlight behind you and the screen showed two selections at
+    /// once (the director's report, 2026-08-29). Selecting on focus is only coherent if the
+    /// selection *means* "this is the box the keyboard is in" — which makes collapsing the outgoing
+    /// box not a second feature but the other half of this one. It runs the client's own
+    /// collapse-to-cursor (`0x77ccf0`), the same primitive every delete path uses.
     ///
     /// The selection uses the client's own `HighlightText(0, -1)` (`0x77cca0`), which resets the
     /// blink on its way, so the box still opens on a solid caret — the property the old
     /// `reset_blink()` calls at these sites existed to preserve.
     fn focus(&mut self, field: Field) {
+        self.focused().collapse();
         self.focus = field;
         self.focused().highlight_text(0, -1);
     }
@@ -1039,6 +1056,39 @@ impl DialogKind {
 const REALMLIST_BAD: &str =
     "That is not a server address.\nTry  logon.example.org  or  127.0.0.1:3724";
 
+/// Which of the dialog's two buttons a key press answers, as `(button1, button2)` — the keyboard
+/// half of [`drive_dialog`]'s buttons; the mouse half is OR-ed in beside it. Button 1 is the
+/// affirmative one on every kind (Cancel on the status dialog, Okay on the others); button 2
+/// exists only where the kind declares it. ENTER confirms, ESCAPE dismisses; on a one-button
+/// dialog they are the same button.
+///
+/// **`on_screen` is the whole of the second bug fixed on 2026-08-29.** Pressing ENTER on an empty
+/// login form played the sound and showed nothing, while *clicking* Login showed the dialog
+/// (director's report). The two systems poll the same [`ButtonInput`]: [`login_input`] opened the
+/// error dialog on the ENTER edge, and [`drive_dialog`] — later in the same chained frame, with
+/// `keys` untouched — read *the same* `just_pressed(Enter)` as that dialog's own Okay and closed
+/// it before it had ever been drawn. Both sounds played, which is exactly what was heard.
+///
+/// The reference cannot have this bug because it is event-driven: the ENTER that fires
+/// `AccountLogin_Login` is *dispatched* to the focused edit box (`OnEnterPressed`), and a dialog
+/// that does not exist yet is not in the dispatch. Polling is our seam, so the gate has to be
+/// ours too, and it says the same thing the dispatch does — **a dialog answers only keys pressed
+/// while it was already on screen**. Not "not this frame": on screen. It is passed the same
+/// `fresh` flag that drives the (re)spawn, so the two cannot drift apart.
+fn dialog_keys(kind: DialogKind, on_screen: bool, enter: bool, escape: bool) -> (bool, bool) {
+    if !on_screen {
+        return (false, false);
+    }
+    let button1 = match kind {
+        // The status dialog's one button IS Cancel, so ESCAPE is it. The queue's button is the
+        // same act under another name, so it answers to ESCAPE the same way.
+        DialogKind::Status | DialogKind::Queued => escape,
+        DialogKind::Error => escape || enter,
+        DialogKind::Realmlist => enter,
+    };
+    (button1, kind == DialogKind::Realmlist && escape)
+}
+
 /// The login screen's one dialog (the ref's shared `GlueDialog`): kind + text; the driver spawns/
 /// despawns the tree (respawning on a kind change — the button caption differs) and updates the
 /// text in place.
@@ -1141,8 +1191,13 @@ fn drive_dialog(
 
     // (Re)spawn on the open edge, a kind change (the button caption differs), or a window resize
     // (the tree bakes the glue scale); a text-only change updates the message line in place.
+    //
+    // `fresh` is *this dialog appearing*, as opposed to a resize rebuilding a dialog already up —
+    // and it is the same flag [`dialog_keys`] takes as `!on_screen`, so the frame the dialog is
+    // drawn on and the frame it starts answering keys on are one decision, not two.
     let s = crate::glue::screen_scale(window.single().ok());
-    if dialog.root.is_none() || dialog.spawned != Some(kind) || dialog.spawned_s != s {
+    let fresh = dialog.root.is_none() || dialog.spawned != Some(kind);
+    if fresh || dialog.spawned_s != s {
         if let Some(root) = dialog.root.take() {
             commands.entity(root).despawn();
         }
@@ -1168,21 +1223,17 @@ fn drive_dialog(
         dialog.dirty = false;
     }
 
-    // The buttons (or their keys). Button 1 is the affirmative one on every kind — Cancel on
-    // the status dialog, Okay on the other two — and button 2 exists only where the kind declares
-    // it. ENTER confirms, ESCAPE dismisses; on a one-button dialog they are the same button.
+    // The buttons, from the mouse or the keys. A click needs no `fresh` guard of its own: the
+    // button it would hit did not exist to be clicked on the frame the tree spawned.
     let hit = |want: LoginAction| buttons.iter().any(|(e, a)| *a == want && clicks.hit(e));
-    let enter = keys.just_pressed(KeyCode::Enter) || keys.just_pressed(KeyCode::NumpadEnter);
-    let escape = keys.just_pressed(KeyCode::Escape);
-    let button1 = hit(LoginAction::Dialog)
-        || match kind {
-            // The status dialog's one button IS Cancel, so ESCAPE is it. The queue's button is
-            // the same act under another name, so it answers to ESCAPE the same way.
-            DialogKind::Status | DialogKind::Queued => escape,
-            DialogKind::Error => escape || enter,
-            DialogKind::Realmlist => enter,
-        };
-    let button2 = hit(LoginAction::Dialog2) || (kind == DialogKind::Realmlist && escape);
+    let (key1, key2) = dialog_keys(
+        kind,
+        !fresh,
+        keys.just_pressed(KeyCode::Enter) || keys.just_pressed(KeyCode::NumpadEnter),
+        keys.just_pressed(KeyCode::Escape),
+    );
+    let button1 = hit(LoginAction::Dialog) || key1;
+    let button2 = hit(LoginAction::Dialog2) || key2;
 
     // **Every glue dialog button clicks** — `GlueDialog_OnClick` ends with
     // `PlaySound("gsTitleOptionOK")` for button 1 and button 2 alike, whatever the dialog's type.
@@ -1513,6 +1564,52 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    /// **A dialog never answers the key press that opened it.** ENTER on an empty login form
+    /// opened the error dialog in `login_input` and then, later in the *same* frame with the same
+    /// `ButtonInput`, `drive_dialog` read that identical `just_pressed(Enter)` as the dialog's own
+    /// Okay — so the popup appeared and vanished inside one frame and only the two sounds were
+    /// heard (director's report, 2026-08-29). The gate is being on screen, not a frame count.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_dialog_does_not_answer_the_key_that_opened_it() {
+        // The frame it appears on: the key that opened it is not its answer.
+        assert_eq!(
+            dialog_keys(DialogKind::Error, false, true, false),
+            (false, false),
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            dialog_keys(DialogKind::Error, false, false, true),
+            (false, false),
+        );
+        // Once it is up, the same press is.
+        assert_eq!(
+            dialog_keys(DialogKind::Error, true, true, false),
+            (true, false),
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// Which key answers which button, per kind: ENTER and ESCAPE are the same (single) button on
+    /// an error dialog; ESCAPE alone works the Cancel-shaped ones; the two-button editor splits
+    /// them, ENTER to Okay and ESCAPE to Cancel.
+    #[test]
+    fn each_dialog_kind_maps_its_own_keys() {
+        for (kind, enter, escape, want) in [
+            (DialogKind::Error, true, false, (true, false)),
+            (DialogKind::Error, false, true, (true, false)),
+            (DialogKind::Status, true, false, (false, false)),
+            (DialogKind::Status, false, true, (true, false)),
+            (DialogKind::Queued, false, true, (true, false)),
+            (DialogKind::Queued, true, false, (false, false)),
+            (DialogKind::Realmlist, true, false, (true, false)),
+            (DialogKind::Realmlist, false, true, (false, true)),
+        ] {
+            assert_eq!(
+                dialog_keys(kind, true, enter, escape),
+                want,
+                "{kind:?} enter={enter} escape={escape}",
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
     /// Opening the editor seats the current address in the box, selected whole — so typing a new
     /// server replaces the old one instead of appending to it.
     #[test]
@@ -1671,9 +1768,24 @@ mod tests {
             "the whole password is selected even though it cannot be read back",
         );
 
+        // **And the box we left is no longer selected.** The other half of the divergence: with
+        // the selection standing for "the keyboard is here", exactly one box can carry one.
+        assert_eq!(
+            form.account.selected_text(),
+            None,
+            "the box that lost the keyboard keeps no highlight",
+        );
+
         // Typing then replaces rather than appends — the point of the divergence.
         form.focused().insert("x");
         assert_eq!(form.password.text, "x");
+
+        form.focus(Field::Account);
+        assert_eq!(
+            form.password.selected_text(),
+            None,
+            "and back the other way"
+        );
     }
 
     /// The code→string map quotes the client's own strings for the vmangos-verified rows.
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/names.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/names.rs
index 14f5e3c8..1a4b56ad 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/names.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/names.rs
@@ -82,18 +82,10 @@ pub(crate) struct CreatureRecord {
     /// For anything actually on screen the unit's own descriptor field still wins — vmangos picks
     /// among a template's four display ids at spawn, and this is the first.
     ///
-    /// **Stored but not yet read** — the stable window's model pane is the consumer, and it needs a
-    /// booth that renders a creature from a display id with **no world entity** to mirror. Every
-    /// in-world booth today takes an `Option<Entity>` and copies that unit's dressed look
-    /// ([`crate::portrait`]'s `sync_body_booth`); the only display-id path that exists is the glue
-    /// stage's select pet (`portrait::glue_booth`, decisions 1536/1538/1539), which is a different
-    /// system. Wiring the two together is its own arc, named as a deferral in decision 1676 rather
-    /// than half-built here. The field is filled now because the wire already carries it and the
-    /// query is ask-once: dropping it would mean re-querying every template later.
-    #[allow(
-        dead_code,
-        reason = "the stable model pane's booth arc — decision 1676"
-    )]
+    /// **Read by the stable window's model pane** ([`crate::ui_stable`]'s `feed_stable_booth`),
+    /// which is what 1676 deferred and named this field for: the booth points at a
+    /// [`crate::portrait::PortraitStandIn`] built from this id when the selected pet has no world
+    /// object — every stabled pet, and a dismissed one in slot 0.
     pub(crate) display_id: u32,
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/mod.rs
index 9c306c9e..ebe1ed83 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/mod.rs
@@ -129,6 +129,15 @@ const INSPECT_SLOT: &str = "inspect";
 /// rather than sharing the `"pet"` portrait slot because that one is a 256² *bust* for the pet unit
 /// frame — different subject framing, different resolution, and a yaw the portrait must never have.
 const PETDOLL_SLOT: &str = "petdoll";
+/// The **stable window**'s model pane (wow-re `ui/scratch/stable-master-window.md` §7.1) — the
+/// fourth body pane, and the only one whose subject may have no world object at all.
+/// `SetPetStablePaperdoll` forks on the selection: `-1` (the summoned pet) resolves the live pet by
+/// GUID and takes its model, anything else maps the petNumber back to a slot and goes through the
+/// **creature cache**, i.e. a bare `CreatureDisplayInfo` id for a pet that is asleep in a stable and
+/// has no unit anywhere. Both forks land in the same booth here: the live one points
+/// [`StableBooth::unit`] at the pet entity ([`PETDOLL_SLOT`]'s case exactly), the cached one points
+/// [`StableBooth::display_id`] at the display and the mirror comes off a [`PortraitStandIn`].
+const STABLE_SLOT: &str = "stable";
 /// World is layer 0, the UI quad pass layer 1; portraits sit on their own high layers so nothing in the
 /// world leaks into a booth and vice-versa (one layer per slot: base, base+1, …).
 const PORTRAIT_LAYER_BASE: usize = 2;
@@ -138,6 +147,8 @@ const PAPERDOLL_LAYER: usize = PORTRAIT_LAYER_BASE + SLOTS.len();
 const INSPECT_LAYER: usize = PAPERDOLL_LAYER + 1;
 /// The pet-doll booth's render layer — the next one past inspect's (the one ladder below).
 const PETDOLL_LAYER: usize = INSPECT_LAYER + 1;
+/// The stable pane's render layer — the next one past the pet doll's, by the ladder rule below.
+const STABLE_LAYER: usize = PETDOLL_LAYER + 1;
 /// The glue booth's render layer — the next one past inspect's. **Every booth layer is computed
 /// HERE**, in one ladder, because they were not: the glue booth (`930b327c`) and the inspect booth
 /// (`ead3b0c9`) each defined "the next layer past the paper doll's" in a different file and landed
@@ -145,7 +156,7 @@ const PETDOLL_LAYER: usize = INSPECT_LAYER + 1;
 /// resolves an emitter's booth camera by *finding the first camera whose layers intersect*, so the
 /// glue scene's 28 emitters addressed the INSPECT camera, which is off at the glue screens, and the
 /// login screen's braziers simulated forever without ever being drawn (decision 0775).
-pub(super) const GLUE_LAYER: usize = PETDOLL_LAYER + 1;
+pub(super) const GLUE_LAYER: usize = STABLE_LAYER + 1;
 /// The **dressing room**'s render layer (decision 1060) — the next one past the glue booth's, by
 /// the same ladder rule.
 pub(super) const DRESSUP_LAYER: usize = GLUE_LAYER + 1;
@@ -165,6 +176,10 @@ pub(crate) const MINIMAP_COMPOSITE_LAYER: usize = WARM_BOOTH_LAYER + 1;
 const _: () = assert!(
     PAPERDOLL_LAYER != INSPECT_LAYER
         && INSPECT_LAYER != PETDOLL_LAYER
+        && PETDOLL_LAYER != STABLE_LAYER
+        && STABLE_LAYER != GLUE_LAYER
+        && PAPERDOLL_LAYER != STABLE_LAYER
+        && INSPECT_LAYER != STABLE_LAYER
         && PETDOLL_LAYER != GLUE_LAYER
         && PAPERDOLL_LAYER != PETDOLL_LAYER
         && PAPERDOLL_LAYER != GLUE_LAYER
@@ -310,6 +325,22 @@ pub(crate) struct PortraitEffects {
     pub(crate) emitters: Vec<benilla_assets::ModelEmitter>,
 }
 
+/// Stamped on a **stand-in subject** — a bodiless entity that exists only to be mirrored, whose
+/// [`PortraitPart`] / [`PortraitBillboard`] children are assembled straight from the display cache
+/// ([`crate::entities::Creatures::display_mirror`]) instead of from a unit's attach path.
+///
+/// It is what lets a body booth be pointed at a creature that has **no world object at all** — the
+/// stable window's stabled pet, which is a row in the server's character-pet cache and a
+/// `CreatureDisplayInfo` id, nothing more. The alternative would have been a second bake path
+/// beside [`sync_body_booth`]; a subject entity means the *existing* one runs verbatim, so the
+/// summoned-pet case and the stabled case cannot drift apart in framing, lighting, yaw or settle.
+///
+/// It carries the display id because that is the one thing [`sync_body_booth`] otherwise reads off
+/// the unit's [`crate::entities::NetEntity`] — and a stand-in has none, by construction. Nothing
+/// else about it is a unit: no guid, no transform of consequence, no visibility, no descriptors.
+#[derive(Component)]
+pub(crate) struct PortraitStandIn(pub(crate) u32);
+
 /// What a portrait slot currently shows — the booth's live bake, or the ref's 2D stand-in file
 /// while a unit's model is still streaming in (RE C5).
 #[derive(Clone, PartialEq)]
@@ -439,6 +470,63 @@ impl Default for PetDollBooth {
     }
 }
 
+/// The stable window's model pane input (wow-re `stable-master-window.md` §7.1) — the
+/// [`PetDollBooth`] shape plus the one thing no other body pane needs: a **subject with no world
+/// object**.
+///
+/// `GetSelectedStablePet()` answers `0` for the summoned pet, `1..=2` for a bought stable slot and
+/// `-1` for nothing, and the reference's `SetPetStablePaperdoll` forks on exactly that: a live pet
+/// is resolved by GUID and its model taken, while a stabled — or merely dismissed — pet is a row in
+/// the server's character-pet cache with nothing but a creature entry, resolved through the
+/// creature cache. So this booth carries both, and [`sync_stable_booth`] prefers the live one:
+///
+/// - `unit` — the summoned pet's entity, when the selection is slot 0 **and** the pet is actually
+///   out and streamed. Then the pane is [`PETDOLL_SLOT`]'s case exactly, mirrored from the world
+///   body, and [`sync_body_booth`] handles it unchanged.
+/// - `display_id` — the selected pet's `CreatureDisplayInfo`, from the creature query
+///   ([`crate::names::CreatureRecord::display_id`]). Used whenever `unit` is `None`: every stabled
+///   pet, and slot 0 while the pet is dismissed or out of range to summon (the server still sends
+///   its row, and the reference still draws it — `0xb72060`, the summoned record's creature entry,
+///   is the fall-through of the live branch's own GUID miss).
+///
+/// Both `None` = nothing selected, or the query has not answered yet, which empties the booth.
+///
+/// ## No pet-family size ramp here, and that is checked rather than assumed
+///
+/// Decision 1538 sizes the *select screen's* pet by `CreatureFamily`'s level ramp. **This pane
+/// applies no scale at all**, because the reference applies none: `SetPetStablePaperdoll`
+/// (`0x4cb870`) writes no scale on either arm; `0x505cb0` only stores the pointer into
+/// `[widget+0x3f0]` and clears `[+0x3e0]`/`[+0x3e4]`; and the record→model build it defers to
+/// (`0x505a70`) walks `CreatureDisplayInfo` → `CreatureModelData` → the model path and calls
+/// `0x4797b0`, which wow-re's `charactermodel` ledger records as the creature **texture-variation**
+/// applier — there is no `fmul` of a scale anywhere on the path. The pane is unnormalized by
+/// construction anyway ([`framing::body_frame`]: a `<PlayerModel>` renders through the model's own
+/// authored camera or a fixed rig, never a bounds fit), so "small model draws small" is already the
+/// law here.
+///
+/// The second reason is internal, and it is the stronger one: the live arm goes through
+/// [`sync_body_booth`] like every other body pane, which applies only [`framing::pane_root_scale`].
+/// Ramping the display arm alone would make **the same pet change size** the moment it was
+/// dismissed — one pane telling two stories.
+#[derive(Resource)]
+pub(crate) struct StableBooth {
+    pub(crate) yaw: f32,
+    pub(crate) unit: Option<Entity>,
+    pub(crate) display_id: Option<u32>,
+}
+
+impl Default for StableBooth {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            // The reference's own `<PlayerModel>` default facing (UIParent.lua:1422), seeded again
+            // by `BenillaPaperDollModel_OnLoad` the moment the window loads.
+            yaw: 0.61,
+            unit: None,
+            display_id: None,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// The key identifying what a booth currently has baked. Any change in the unit's dressed look
 /// (gear swap, appearance refresh, different unit) changes it → re-bake.
 #[derive(PartialEq)]
@@ -1035,6 +1123,8 @@ impl Plugin for PortraitPlugin {
             .init_resource::<PaperDollBooth>()
             .init_resource::<InspectBooth>()
             .init_resource::<PetDollBooth>()
+            .init_resource::<StableBooth>()
+            .init_resource::<StableStandIn>()
             .init_resource::<glue_booth::GluePreview>()
             .init_resource::<glue_booth::GluePreviewBake>()
             .init_resource::<glue_booth::GluePetBake>()
@@ -1065,6 +1155,10 @@ impl Plugin for PortraitPlugin {
                     sync_paperdoll,
                     sync_inspect_booth,
                     sync_petdoll_booth,
+                    // Before the pane that reads it: the stand-in must exist (and have had a frame
+                    // to flush its children) before the booth can mirror it.
+                    sync_stable_standin,
+                    sync_stable_booth,
                     glue_booth::sync_glue_booth,
                     glue_booth::sync_glue_scene,
                     // After the scene's framing: the viewport/clear its law decided (1619).
@@ -1294,17 +1388,18 @@ fn setup_booths(
         );
     }
 
-    // The three **body** booths — the character window's paper doll (decision 0208 §5), the
-    // inspect window's pane (decision 0631 §4) and the pet paper doll's (decision 1057). Same
-    // off-screen pipeline as the portrait slots (transparent target, HDR + the FFXGlow node,
-    // negative order so the bake is ready before the world/UI cameras), but their own 512²
-    // targets, their own layers, and a body-framing projection (aimed per-bake by
-    // `sync_body_booth`). Kept a separate spawn from the portrait loop above so these cameras
-    // stay byte-for-byte what the director approved.
+    // The four **body** booths — the character window's paper doll (decision 0208 §5), the
+    // inspect window's pane (decision 0631 §4), the pet paper doll's (decision 1057) and the
+    // stable window's (wow-re `stable-master-window.md` §7.1). Same off-screen pipeline as the
+    // portrait slots (transparent target, HDR + the FFXGlow node, negative order so the bake is
+    // ready before the world/UI cameras), but their own 512² targets, their own layers, and a
+    // body-framing projection (aimed per-bake by `sync_body_booth`). Kept a separate spawn from
+    // the portrait loop above so these cameras stay byte-for-byte what the director approved.
     for (i, (slot, layer_index)) in [
         (PAPERDOLL_SLOT, PAPERDOLL_LAYER),
         (INSPECT_SLOT, INSPECT_LAYER),
         (PETDOLL_SLOT, PETDOLL_LAYER),
+        (STABLE_SLOT, STABLE_LAYER),
     ]
     .into_iter()
     .enumerate()
@@ -1612,6 +1707,11 @@ struct DressedLook<'w, 's> {
     /// because all three body-pane systems were at Bevy's 16-parameter ceiling.
     dress: Query<'w, 's, &'static crate::entities::DressKey>,
     revs: Query<'w, 's, &'static ModelRevision>,
+    /// A [`PortraitStandIn`] subject's display id — the one thing a bodiless subject carries that
+    /// a world unit reads off its [`crate::entities::NetEntity`] instead. It rides this param for
+    /// the same reason `dress`/`revs` do: all four body-pane systems sit at Bevy's 16-parameter
+    /// ceiling, and this is already the "what does this subject look like" bundle.
+    stand_in: Query<'w, 's, &'static PortraitStandIn>,
 }
 
 impl DressedLook<'_, '_> {
@@ -1676,6 +1776,12 @@ impl DressedLook<'_, '_> {
         (parts, riders, billboards, effects)
     }
 
+    /// A stand-in subject's display id — `None` for a real world unit, which carries its own on
+    /// its [`crate::entities::NetEntity`].
+    fn stand_in_display(&self, unit: Entity) -> Option<u32> {
+        self.stand_in.get(unit).ok().map(|s| s.0)
+    }
+
     /// `unit`'s dress and model revision — `None`/`0` before its equipment has first resolved,
     /// which is simply another key value and re-snapshots when it lands.
     fn snapshot_inputs(&self, unit: Entity) -> (Option<crate::entities::DressKey>, u32) {
@@ -2159,9 +2265,144 @@ fn sync_petdoll_booth(
     );
 }
 
+/// The stable pane's **stand-in subject** — the bodiless [`PortraitStandIn`] entity that stands
+/// for a pet with no world object (module note on [`StableBooth`]).
+///
+/// Keyed on the **display**, not on the selection: two stabled pets that share a display id are the
+/// same model standing at the same facing, so moving the selection between them is not a re-bake —
+/// and the reference is no different, since its cached branch resolves a creature record and the
+/// two rows resolve to the same one. A *changed* display respawns the entity rather than refilling
+/// it, so the bake's own `SnapKey` (keyed on the subject entity) cannot carry across.
+#[derive(Resource, Default)]
+struct StableStandIn {
+    /// The stand-in, while one exists.
+    entity: Option<Entity>,
+    /// The display it was spawned for.
+    display: Option<u32>,
+    /// Its mirror children are up. `false` while the display's model is still building, which
+    /// simply retries next frame — the glue pet's assembly discipline.
+    built: bool,
+}
+
+/// Keep [`StableStandIn`] pointing at the selected stabled pet: spawn one when the pane wants a
+/// display it has no world body for, fill its mirror children the moment that display's model
+/// finishes building, and despawn it the instant the want changes (a different pet, a live pet to
+/// mirror instead, or nothing selected).
+fn sync_stable_standin(
+    mut commands: Commands,
+    stable: Res<StableBooth>,
+    creatures: Option<Res<Creatures>>,
+    mut state: ResMut<StableStandIn>,
+) {
+    // **The live pet wins.** With a world body to mirror there is nothing for a stand-in to do, and
+    // the reference agrees: `SetPetStablePaperdoll` reaches the creature cache only after the
+    // live-pet-by-GUID resolve has failed (§7.1's fall-through at `0x4cb9bc`).
+    let want = stable.unit.is_none().then_some(stable.display_id).flatten();
+    if state.display != want {
+        if let Some(old) = state.entity.take() {
+            commands.entity(old).despawn();
+        }
+        state.display = want;
+        state.built = false;
+        state.entity = want.map(|display| {
+            commands
+                .spawn((
+                    PortraitStandIn(display),
+                    // Hidden, at the origin: nothing under a stand-in is ever drawn in the world —
+                    // the booth re-spawns its own copies of these meshes on its own layer, which is
+                    // what it does for a real unit too. The pair is here so the transform and
+                    // visibility propagation walk a well-formed tree rather than a rootless one.
+                    Transform::default(),
+                    Visibility::Hidden,
+                ))
+                .id()
+        });
+    }
+    if state.built {
+        return;
+    }
+    let (Some(root), Some(disp), Some(creatures)) = (state.entity, want, creatures.as_deref())
+    else {
+        return;
+    };
+    // `None` while the display's model is still loading (`update_display_models` asked for it on
+    // this same want) — leave `built` false and retry next frame.
+    let Some((parts, cards)) = creatures.display_mirror(disp) else {
+        return;
+    };
+    let (n_parts, n_cards) = (parts.len(), cards.len());
+    commands.entity(root).with_children(|kids| {
+        for part in parts {
+            kids.spawn((Transform::default(), Visibility::Inherited, part));
+        }
+        for card in cards {
+            kids.spawn((Transform::default(), Visibility::Inherited, card));
+        }
+    });
+    state.built = true;
+    debug!(
+        "stable booth: stand-in for display {disp} — {n_parts} part(s), {n_cards} camera-facing"
+    );
+}
+
+/// The stable window's model pane — the pet `GetSelectedStablePet()` names.
+///
+/// The **whole fork is upstream of here**: [`crate::ui_stable`] resolves the selection into either
+/// a live pet entity or a bare display id, and [`sync_stable_standin`] turns the latter into a
+/// subject entity. So this is [`sync_petdoll_booth`] with one `or` — which is the point of the
+/// stand-in: the summoned pet and the stabled pet reach the same bake through the same code, and so
+/// cannot drift apart in framing, lighting, animation or settle.
+#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
+fn sync_stable_booth(
+    mut commands: Commands,
+    mut booths: ResMut<Booths>,
+    mut portraits: ResMut<PortraitImages>,
+    mut booth_light: ResMut<BoothLight>,
+    creatures: Option<Res<Creatures>>,
+    ent_q: Query<&NetEntity>,
+    look: DressedLook,
+    stable: Res<StableBooth>,
+    stand_in: Res<StableStandIn>,
+    mut palettes: ResMut<benilla_world::rig_palette::RigPalettes>,
+    mut wow_mats: ResMut<Assets<WowModelMaterial>>,
+    mut env_cache: Local<Option<bool>>,
+    mut last_pose: Local<Option<(f32, f32)>>,
+    mut cams: Query<(&BoothCam, &mut Transform, &mut Projection)>,
+    framing_in: BoothFraming,
+    anim_data: Option<Res<crate::creature_anim::AnimData>>,
+) {
+    if test_mode(&mut env_cache) {
+        return;
+    }
+    sync_body_booth(
+        &mut palettes,
+        STABLE_SLOT,
+        stable.unit.or(stand_in.entity),
+        stable.yaw,
+        &mut last_pose,
+        framing_in.gx.0,
+        &mut commands,
+        &mut booths,
+        &mut portraits,
+        &mut booth_light,
+        creatures.as_deref(),
+        &ent_q,
+        &look,
+        &mut wow_mats,
+        &mut cams,
+        anim_data.as_deref(),
+        &framing_in.panes,
+    );
+}
+
 /// Bake `unit`'s full-body dressed look into the `slot` booth at `yaw` — the shared body of all
-/// three body booths (decision 0208 §5 for the paper doll, 0631 §4 for inspect, 1057 for the pet
-/// doll). `unit` is `None` when there is nothing to show, which empties the booth.
+/// four body booths (decision 0208 §5 for the paper doll, 0631 §4 for inspect, 1057 for the pet
+/// doll, wow-re `stable-master-window.md` §7.1 for the stable pane). `unit` is `None` when there is
+/// nothing to show, which empties the booth.
+///
+/// `unit` is a **subject**, not necessarily a world unit: a [`PortraitStandIn`] mirrors the same
+/// way and carries its own display id, which is how the stable pane draws a pet that has no object
+/// anywhere ([`StableBooth`]).
 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
 fn sync_body_booth(
     palettes: &mut benilla_world::rig_palette::RigPalettes,
@@ -2248,7 +2489,14 @@ fn sync_body_booth(
         booth.show_rev,
         aspect,
     );
-    let display_id = ent_q.get(unit).ok().and_then(|n| n.display_id);
+    // The display the framing, the rig and the model-root scale all key on. A world unit carries
+    // it on its wire record; a bodiless [`PortraitStandIn`] carries it on itself, and has no wire
+    // record at all — which is the whole of what makes a stabled pet drawable.
+    let display_id = ent_q
+        .get(unit)
+        .ok()
+        .and_then(|n| n.display_id)
+        .or_else(|| look.stand_in_display(unit));
     // Anchors first, before any teardown — a still-loading display must not be framed from
     // fabricated zero bounds (see the portrait site, and `booth_anchors`). Resolved out here rather
     // than inside the bake because the model-root scale below needs them on an otherwise-idle frame
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_items/feed.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_items/feed.rs
index aad99eae..bb5a281c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_items/feed.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_items/feed.rs
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ pub(crate) struct FeedMemory {
     items_templates: gate::Watch,
     cooldown_epoch: gate::Watch,
     names_generation: gate::Watch,
+    /// `PetitionState::records_epoch` — one step per landed or patched petition record, which is
+    /// what a charter slot's tooltip lines are built from. Lazy, so its arrival moves nothing else
+    /// here (the same reason `names_generation` exists one line up).
+    petition_records: gate::Watch,
     /// `Items::enchant_display_epoch` — one step per displayable countdown change (the slot
     /// views read second-floored countdowns), including the last elapse's collapsing push.
     enchant_deadlines: gate::Watch,
@@ -538,6 +542,9 @@ fn resolve_slot(
     cooldowns: &crate::cooldowns::Cooldowns,
     spells: Option<&benilla_formats::SpellCatalog>,
     names: &mut crate::names::NameCache,
+    // The petition record cache, for a charter slot's tooltip lines — a LAZY fill, so it is taken
+    // mutably for the same reason `names` is: the read is what issues the query.
+    petitions: &mut crate::ui_petition::PetitionState,
     now: std::time::Instant,
     ui_now: f64,
 ) -> Option<ContainerSlot> {
@@ -618,6 +625,25 @@ fn resolve_slot(
         });
     };
     Some(ContainerSlot {
+        // **Line 3 of the tooltip law** — a charter's guild name and master. Gated on the template's
+        // signable flag, then keyed by the petition id the server stuffs into the item's
+        // `ITEM_FIELD_ENCHANTMENT` slot 0 (`PetitionsHandler.cpp:126`) — which is the same field the
+        // client reads it from (`0x5ef337`), and the same one the tooltip's ENCHANT lines are
+        // forced to skip for exactly this reason (`0x52c9e0 test ah,0x20`). So slot 0 on a charter
+        // is a petition id by contract on both ends, and this is its one consumer here.
+        //
+        // The lookup is lazy: hovering an unopened charter is what sends the query, so the first
+        // hover shows the name and the green line alone. The creator line right below has the same
+        // rule.
+        petition: (t.flags & benilla_protocol::messages::ITEM_FLAG_CHARTER != 0)
+            .then(|| {
+                let id = items
+                    .object(guid)
+                    .and_then(|f| f.item_enchant(0))
+                    .unwrap_or(0);
+                petitions.tooltip_view(id as u32, guid, names, commands)
+            })
+            .flatten(),
         texture: icons
             .and_then(|i| i.catalog.get(t.display_info_id))
             .and_then(|d| d.icon.clone()),
@@ -726,12 +752,19 @@ pub(crate) fn feed_containers(
     mut pending: ResMut<PendingItemOps>,
     mut lock_cleared: ResMut<LockClearedByFailure>,
     mut names: ResMut<crate::names::NameCache>,
-    clock: Res<crate::ui_script::UiClock>,
+    // Paired into one param (the 16-SystemParam ceiling this signature already sits at): the UI
+    // clock, and the petition record cache a charter slot's tooltip lines read — `ResMut` because
+    // that cache is LAZY and the hover is what issues its query.
+    clock_and_petitions: (
+        Res<crate::ui_script::UiClock>,
+        ResMut<crate::ui_petition::PetitionState>,
+    ),
     mut memory: Local<crate::ui_script::VmMemo<FeedMemory>>,
 ) {
     let Some(mut script) = script else {
         return;
     };
+    let (clock, mut petitions) = clock_and_petitions;
     let (memory, vm_reset) = memory.get_reset(&script);
     // The gate (1439): the snapshot below is a function of the self descriptor's slot arrays,
     // the item stores (both epochs — `is_changed` on `Items`/`NameCache`/`Cooldowns` is
@@ -745,6 +778,7 @@ pub(crate) fn feed_containers(
     let templates_moved = memory.items_templates.moved(items.template_epoch());
     let cooldowns_moved = memory.cooldown_epoch.moved(cooldowns.feed_epoch());
     let names_moved = memory.names_generation.moved(names.generation());
+    let petitions_moved = memory.petition_records.moved(petitions.records_epoch());
     // The DISPLAY epoch (see `feed_char`'s twin comment): the snapshot's countdowns are
     // second-floored, so one watch step per displayable change replaces the per-frame hold-open
     // that rebuilt every bag snapshot for the whole life of a ticking enchant.
@@ -775,6 +809,7 @@ pub(crate) fn feed_containers(
             ("cooldowns", cooldowns_moved),
             ("sweep", sweep),
             ("names", names_moved),
+            ("petition-records", petitions_moved),
             ("deadlines", deadlines_moved),
             ("self", self_changed),
             ("icons", icons_changed),
@@ -794,6 +829,7 @@ pub(crate) fn feed_containers(
             // (`sweep_pending`'s own doc) — the slot triple flips to None right then.
             || sweep
             || names_moved
+            || petitions_moved
             || deadlines_moved
             || self_changed
             || icons_changed
@@ -910,6 +946,7 @@ pub(crate) fn feed_containers(
                 &cooldowns,
                 spell_catalog,
                 &mut names,
+                &mut petitions,
                 now,
                 ui_now,
             ) {
@@ -963,6 +1000,7 @@ pub(crate) fn feed_containers(
                     &cooldowns,
                     spell_catalog,
                     &mut names,
+                    &mut petitions,
                     now,
                     ui_now,
                 ) {
@@ -996,6 +1034,7 @@ pub(crate) fn feed_containers(
                 &cooldowns,
                 spell_catalog,
                 &mut names,
+                &mut petitions,
                 now,
                 ui_now,
             ) {
@@ -1045,6 +1084,7 @@ pub(crate) fn feed_containers(
                     &cooldowns,
                     spell_catalog,
                     &mut names,
+                    &mut petitions,
                     now,
                     ui_now,
                 ) {
@@ -1082,6 +1122,7 @@ pub(crate) fn feed_containers(
                 &cooldowns,
                 spell_catalog,
                 &mut names,
+                &mut petitions,
                 now,
                 ui_now,
             ) {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_petition/feed.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_petition/feed.rs
index e4aba1d1..bfcea9f3 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_petition/feed.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_petition/feed.rs
@@ -121,7 +121,9 @@ pub(super) fn feed_petition(
             max_signatures: r.required,
             // Nil until the cache has it — and NOT part of the defer condition (module doc).
             originator: names.resolve(o.owner, &commands).map(str::to_string),
-            is_originator: o.owner == me,
+            // The RECORD's owner, which is what the binding compares (`0x4f447a`) — not the
+            // packet's. Identical on any sane server; only one of them is the source.
+            is_originator: r.owner == me,
         })
     });
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_petition/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_petition/mod.rs
index 093c0db0..56e112d9 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_petition/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_petition/mod.rs
@@ -206,6 +206,16 @@ pub(crate) struct PetitionState {
     /// gated on it (`0x4f3f89`), so closing a window while your own signature is in flight must
     /// **not** put `MSG_PETITION_DECLINE` on the wire.
     signing: bool,
+    /// One step per landed or patched petition record — the **gate input** the charter tooltip's
+    /// line 3 needs.
+    ///
+    /// The record cache is lazy: the hover is what issues the query, so the answer arriving sets
+    /// nothing any consumer already watches. `ui_items`' bag feed gates its whole snapshot rebuild
+    /// on a list of epochs (decision 1439), and without this counter in that list a charter's guild
+    /// lines are resolved once — to `None`, before the record exists — and never again. The live
+    /// probe is what caught it; every unit test passed, because they push the record and the view
+    /// in the same breath.
+    records_epoch: u64,
     /// Lines composed at apply time, waiting for the feed — which is where the `script` handle
     /// lives, and so the only place a red `UI_ERROR_MESSAGE` can be fired ([`crate::ui_bank`]'s
     /// `BankErrors` shape).
@@ -229,6 +239,14 @@ struct OpenCharter {
 /// One petition's record, from `SMSG_PETITION_QUERY_RESPONSE`.
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Default)]
 struct Record {
+    /// The charter owner's guid — the record's `+0x8`/`+0xc`.
+    ///
+    /// **The record's owner, not the packet's**, and the distinction is the client's own:
+    /// `GetPetitionInfo`'s `isOriginator` compares the active player against `[edi+0x8]`
+    /// (`0x4f447a`/`0x4f4481`), and `CanSignPetition`'s owner refusal reads `[esi+0x8]`. They hold
+    /// the same value on any sane server — `SMSG_PETITION_SHOW_SIGNATURES` and
+    /// `SMSG_PETITION_QUERY_RESPONSE` both name the owner — but only one of them is the source.
+    owner: u64,
     /// The proposed guild's name.
     name: String,
     /// Free text — always empty on a 1.12 server.
@@ -273,12 +291,19 @@ impl PetitionState {
             .send(ClientCommand::PetitionQuery { petition_id, item });
     }
 
+    /// One step per landed or patched record — see [`Self::records_epoch`]'s own field doc.
+    pub(crate) fn records_epoch(&self) -> u64 {
+        self.records_epoch
+    }
+
     /// `SMSG_PETITION_QUERY_RESPONSE` — fill the cache.
     fn apply_record(&mut self, response: PetitionQueryResponse) {
+        self.records_epoch = self.records_epoch.wrapping_add(1);
         self.querying.remove(&response.petition_id);
         self.records.insert(
             response.petition_id,
             Record {
+                owner: response.owner,
                 name: response.name,
                 body_text: response.body_text,
                 required: response.min_signatures as i32,
@@ -287,6 +312,36 @@ impl PetitionState {
         );
     }
 
+    /// The charter tooltip's line-3 view for `petition_id` — the guild name and its master.
+    ///
+    /// **A lazy cache fill, and the hover is what issues the query.** A charter you have never
+    /// opened has no record, so the first hover returns `None` (the plate shows the item's name and
+    /// the green `<Right Click for Details>` line and nothing between) and the answer arriving
+    /// repaints it. That is [`crate::names::NameCache::resolve`]'s rule, the guild-identity cache's
+    /// rule, and the same shape the tooltip's own creator line already has one field up.
+    ///
+    /// `item` rides along because `CMSG_PETITION_QUERY` carries it; vmangos ignores the field, but
+    /// it is sent at its true value like every other field we can fill honestly.
+    pub(crate) fn tooltip_view(
+        &mut self,
+        petition_id: u32,
+        item: u64,
+        names: &mut NameCache,
+        commands: &NetCommands,
+    ) -> Option<benilla_ui::script::PetitionSlotView> {
+        if petition_id == 0 {
+            return None;
+        }
+        self.request_record(petition_id, item, commands);
+        let rec = self.records.get(&petition_id)?;
+        let (is_charter, title, owner_guid) = (rec.is_charter, rec.name.clone(), rec.owner);
+        Some(benilla_ui::script::PetitionSlotView {
+            is_charter,
+            title,
+            owner: names.resolve(owner_guid, commands).map(str::to_string),
+        })
+    }
+
     /// Append one signer to the open charter — the owner's half of a successful sign
     /// (`0x4f41c0`), and it is an **append, not a re-request**.
     ///
@@ -503,6 +558,8 @@ pub(crate) mod apply {
             return;
         };
         petition.records.entry(id).or_default().name = rename.name;
+        // A patched title is a changed record: the tooltip's line 3 reads it too.
+        petition.records_epoch = petition.records_epoch.wrapping_add(1);
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs
index 6efde2f3..3b94a3a4 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs
@@ -812,6 +812,7 @@ fn shipped_bag_frame_drives_end_to_end() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/bag_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/bag_tests.rs
index a0888eb7..0099cc78 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/bag_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/bag_tests.rs
@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ fn bag_tooltip_hangs_left_when_the_slot_sits_in_the_right_half() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
@@ -516,6 +517,7 @@ fn hovered_bag_tooltip_fills_itself_when_the_stats_land() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
@@ -625,6 +627,7 @@ fn vendor_bag_hover_shows_sell_price_and_arms_the_pouch_cursor() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
@@ -645,6 +648,7 @@ fn vendor_bag_hover_shows_sell_price_and_arms_the_pouch_cursor() {
     slots.insert(
         2,
         ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
@@ -841,6 +845,7 @@ fn drag_across_two_slots_queues_the_same_move_a_click_pickup_would() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
@@ -930,6 +935,7 @@ fn a_second_bag_window_feeds_and_paints_via_the_bag_bar() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
@@ -1062,6 +1068,7 @@ fn open_backpack_with_a_five_stack(s: &mut UiScript) -> (f32, f32) {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/character_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/character_tests.rs
index 2ba46a19..8df9f716 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/character_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/character_tests.rs
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ fn backpack_with_fitting_helm() -> benilla_ui::script::ContainerState {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         benilla_ui::script::ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/chat_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/chat_tests.rs
index 5f8e5504..3f326338 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/chat_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/chat_tests.rs
@@ -319,6 +319,7 @@ fn chat_click_dismisses_a_stuck_spell_but_not_an_item() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/delete_item_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/delete_item_tests.rs
index 1e7b5c35..606e1c92 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/delete_item_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/delete_item_tests.rs
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ fn one_item_backpack() -> ContainerState {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/escape_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/escape_tests.rs
index 85911c19..0c92be23 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/escape_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/escape_tests.rs
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ fn one_item_backpack() -> ContainerState {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
@@ -237,6 +238,7 @@ fn escape_closes_an_open_stack_split_frame() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/game_menu_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/game_menu_tests.rs
index 87706ec1..df8c436e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/game_menu_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/game_menu_tests.rs
@@ -700,6 +700,7 @@ fn backpack() -> ContainerState {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/help_frame_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/help_frame_tests.rs
index 63600063..384e2126 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/help_frame_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/help_frame_tests.rs
@@ -376,6 +376,59 @@ fn auto_unstuck_casts_and_closes() {
     assert!(!s.eval::<bool>("return HelpFrame:IsVisible()").unwrap());
 }
 
+/// **The retail-only text is gone from the Home page** (director's call, 2026-08-29).
+///
+/// The page is entirely GlobalStrings off the player's own chain, so three of its strings still
+/// pointed at `worldofwarcraft.com` — a dead PvP-policy link, and a closing paragraph directing the
+/// player to Blizzard's forums and policy pages. The window overrides them before the markup
+/// resolves.
+///
+/// This test exists because the failure mode is *invisible in a test suite*: nothing breaks if the
+/// override is dropped, the page simply starts advertising dead links again. Asserted on the
+/// rendered FontStrings rather than the globals, so it also catches the markup being re-pointed at
+/// a different key.
+#[test]
+fn the_home_page_advertises_no_dead_retail_links() {
+    let s = setup();
+    s.run("ShowUIPanel(HelpFrame) HelpFrame_ShowFrame(\"Home\")")
+        .unwrap();
+
+    for frame in [
+        "HelpFrameHomePvpPolicyUrl",
+        "HelpFrameHomeText2",
+        "HelpFrameHomeIssue3",
+        "HelpFrameHomeText1",
+    ] {
+        let text = s
+            .eval::<String>(&format!("return {frame}:GetText() or \"\""))
+            .unwrap()
+            .to_lowercase();
+        for dead in [
+            "worldofwarcraft.com",
+            "http://",
+            "www.",
+            ".shtml",
+            "the forums",
+        ] {
+            assert!(
+                !text.contains(dead),
+                "{frame} still carries retail-only text ({dead:?}): {text:?}"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    // The PvP guidance itself is KEPT — only the sentence introducing the link went. A test that
+    // let the whole bullet be emptied would pass on an over-correction, which is the other way to
+    // get this wrong.
+    let pvp = s
+        .eval::<String>("return HelpFrameHomeIssue3:GetText()")
+        .unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        pvp.contains("PVP game mechanics"),
+        "the PvP guidance must survive the link's removal: {pvp:?}"
+    );
+}
+
 /// **The geometry oracle** (decision 0675): every element the transcription shares with the
 /// reference file carries the reference's own `<AbsDimension>` numbers.
 ///
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/petition_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/petition_tests.rs
index 34d50459..45be95cc 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/petition_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/petition_tests.rs
@@ -187,6 +187,22 @@ fn a_signers_charter_shows_the_sign_face_and_nine_rows() {
         );
     }
 
+    // The charter's own static furniture — the three labels, the nine rows and the instructions
+    // all draw, not merely hold text.
+    for part in [
+        "PetitionFrameCharterTitle",
+        "PetitionFrameCharterName",
+        "PetitionFrameMasterTitle",
+        "PetitionFrameMasterName",
+        "PetitionFrameMemberTitle",
+        "PetitionFrameMemberName1",
+        "PetitionFrameMemberName9",
+        "PetitionFrameInstructions",
+        "PetitionFrameCancelButton",
+        "PetitionFrameCloseButton",
+    ] {
+        assert!(visible(&s, part), "{part} is on screen");
+    }
     assert!(visible(&s, "PetitionFrameSignButton"));
     assert!(!visible(&s, "PetitionFrameRequestButton"));
     assert!(
@@ -348,6 +364,16 @@ fn the_registrar_opens_on_services_and_purchase_is_a_local_panel_swap() {
     assert!(visible(&s, "GuildRegistrarFrame"));
     assert!(visible(&s, "GuildRegistrarGreetingFrame"));
     assert!(!visible(&s, "GuildRegistrarPurchaseFrame"));
+    // **The two service rows must be VISIBLE, not merely labelled.** This assertion is here
+    // because its absence shipped the bug: the rows inherited `hidden="true"` from a template
+    // modelled on the quest list's POOLED rows, which are shown one at a time by code. These are
+    // static and nothing ever calls `:Show()` on them, so both were permanently invisible — the
+    // window came up as a bare "Available Services" heading over blank parchment — while every
+    // `GetText()` assertion below passed, because a hidden button still knows its own label.
+    // Decision 0672's lesson in another key: a frame that loads is not a frame that draws.
+    for row in ["GuildRegistrarButton1", "GuildRegistrarButton2"] {
+        assert!(visible(&s, row), "{row} is on screen, not just loaded");
+    }
     assert_eq!(
         text(&s, "GuildRegistrarButton1"),
         "Purchase a Guild Charter"
@@ -361,6 +387,18 @@ fn the_registrar_opens_on_services_and_purchase_is_a_local_panel_swap() {
     s.run("GuildRegistrarButton1:Click()").unwrap();
     assert!(visible(&s, "GuildRegistrarPurchaseFrame"));
     assert!(!visible(&s, "GuildRegistrarGreetingFrame"));
+    // The purchase panel's own furniture, for the reason the services rows above are checked: a
+    // window whose parts load but do not draw passes every text assertion.
+    for part in [
+        "GuildRegistrarPurchaseText",
+        "GuildRegistrarCostLabel",
+        "GuildRegistrarMoneyFrame",
+        "GuildRegistrarFrameEditBox",
+        "GuildRegistrarFramePurchaseButton",
+        "GuildRegistrarFrameCancelButton",
+    ] {
+        assert!(visible(&s, part), "{part} is on screen");
+    }
     assert_eq!(calls(&s), "", "the swap sends nothing");
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs
index 5cb1717a..438e8935 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ fn seed_items(s: &mut UiScript) {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_session.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_session.rs
index 45ce7b99..9f5bb57f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_session.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_session.rs
@@ -130,6 +130,12 @@ pub(crate) fn feed_interact_npc(
     // session is already gone. Without this arm the window's portrait is the auctioneer's black
     // disc all over again and its name banner is blank.
     registrar: Option<Res<crate::ui_petition::GuildRegistrarState>>,
+    // The stable master's, while the pet stable is open (decision 1684) — the black disc a THIRD
+    // time, and this one could not have leaned on the gossip arm even by accident: benilla asks a
+    // menuless stable master for its pet list DIRECTLY on the interact leg (decision 1680, the
+    // client's own `0x5f05bc` path), so there is no gossip session behind it at all. The registrar
+    // arm above is the same shape for the same reason.
+    stable: Option<Res<crate::ui_stable::StableOpen>>,
     index: Option<Res<GuidIndex>>,
     mut out: ResMut<InteractNpc>,
 ) {
@@ -142,7 +148,8 @@ pub(crate) fn feed_interact_npc(
         .or_else(|| trade.and_then(|s| s.npc()))
         .or_else(|| bank.and_then(|s| s.npc()))
         .or_else(|| auction.and_then(|s| s.npc()))
-        .or_else(|| registrar.and_then(|s| s.npc()));
+        .or_else(|| registrar.and_then(|s| s.npc()))
+        .or_else(|| stable.and_then(|s| s.npc()));
     // Field 0 is the entity the portrait booth bakes and the facing chain steers by; field 1 is
     // the same NPC's **guid**, which `crate::ui_unit`'s feed needs to resolve the `"npc"` unit
     // token's name (a name lives in the `NameCache`, keyed by guid — there is no way back to one
@@ -262,13 +269,124 @@ mod tests {
             "the auctioneer's own portrait"
         );
 
+        app.world_mut()
+            .resource_mut::<crate::ui_auction::AuctionOpen>()
+            .clear();
+
+        // The stable master's (decision 1684) — the same black disc, reported by the director on
+        // 2026-08-28. Note WHERE it shipped from: this very test already existed, with the
+        // paragraph above it saying every portrait window must be in the chain — and the stable
+        // still went out black, because the guard is **opt-in per session**. A window nobody
+        // remembers to add here is a window nobody's test covers. Worse for this one than for the
+        // auction house: benilla asks a menuless stable master for its list directly on the
+        // interact leg (decision 1680), so there is no gossip session to accidentally carry it.
+        app.init_resource::<crate::ui_stable::StableOpen>();
+        app.world_mut()
+            .resource_mut::<crate::ui_stable::StableOpen>()
+            .open(0x42, 2, vec![]);
+        app.update();
+        assert_eq!(
+            app.world().resource::<InteractNpc>().0,
+            Some(npc),
+            "the stable master's own portrait"
+        );
+
         // Every session closes → None again.
         app.world_mut().resource_mut::<GossipState>().close();
         app.world_mut().resource_mut::<MerchantOpen>().close();
         app.world_mut()
-            .resource_mut::<crate::ui_auction::AuctionOpen>()
+            .resource_mut::<crate::ui_stable::StableOpen>()
             .clear();
         app.update();
         assert_eq!(app.world().resource::<InteractNpc>().0, None);
     }
+
+    /// **The structural tripwire the three black discs earned** (decision 1684).
+    ///
+    /// The assertions above are opt-in: each names one session, and a window nobody remembers to
+    /// add is a window nobody covers. That is not hypothetical — the auction house shipped a black
+    /// portrait (0x-2026-08-22), the guild registrar was caught only because someone reasoned about
+    /// the gossip close, and the stable master shipped black on 2026-08-28 with this very test
+    /// already in the file telling everyone to add their session to it.
+    ///
+    /// So this one is exhaustive by construction: it reads the app's own sources, finds every
+    /// `impl NpcSession for X`, and requires each `X` to be either **in the `.or` chain** or on the
+    /// **explicit exclusion list** below with a stated reason. A new NPC window cannot be silent —
+    /// it either wires its portrait or it says why it has none.
+    #[test]
+    fn every_npc_session_is_portrait_bound_or_explicitly_excluded() {
+        use std::path::Path;
+
+        /// Sessions that deliberately do NOT own the `"npc"` portrait token, each with the reason
+        /// it does not. Adding a name here is a decision; leaving one out is a black disc.
+        const EXCLUDED: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
+            // Decision 0544: the mail window's icon is authored art, not a unit-model bake, so it
+            // has no portrait to point and must not steal the token from a window that does.
+            ("MailOpen", "its window icon is art, not a unit bake (0544)"),
+            // Reached only from inside an open gossip menu, which is still open behind it and is
+            // the FIRST arm of the chain — so the trainer's own NPC is already the answer. Unlike
+            // the registrar's case, the server does not close the menu first.
+            ("TalentWipeState", "rides the still-open gossip session"),
+            ("BinderState", "rides the still-open gossip session"),
+        ];
+
+        // The chain's own source is the authority on what is wired — not a hand-copied list here,
+        // which would be the very drift this test exists to catch.
+        let this_file = include_str!("ui_session.rs");
+        let chain = this_file
+            .split_once("pub(crate) fn feed_interact_npc")
+            .expect("feed_interact_npc")
+            .1
+            .split_once("\n}\n")
+            .expect("end of feed_interact_npc")
+            .0;
+
+        let mut missing = Vec::new();
+        let root = Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("src");
+        let mut stack = vec![root];
+        while let Some(dir) = stack.pop() {
+            for entry in std::fs::read_dir(&dir).expect("read_dir") {
+                let path = entry.expect("dir entry").path();
+                if path.is_dir() {
+                    stack.push(path);
+                    continue;
+                }
+                if path.extension().is_none_or(|e| e != "rs") {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                // This file itself: the trait lives here and no session implements it here, but
+                // the prose above spells the pattern out — so scanning ourselves finds the doc
+                // comment and nothing real.
+                if path.file_name().is_some_and(|f| f == "ui_session.rs") {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                let src = std::fs::read_to_string(&path).expect("read source");
+                for (_, rest) in src
+                    .match_indices("impl NpcSession for ")
+                    .map(|(i, _)| (i, &src[i + "impl NpcSession for ".len()..]))
+                {
+                    let ty: String = rest
+                        .chars()
+                        .take_while(|c| c.is_alphanumeric() || *c == '_')
+                        .collect();
+                    if ty.is_empty() || EXCLUDED.iter().any(|(name, _)| *name == ty) {
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                    // Wired = the chain mentions the type. The chain names each session by its
+                    // resource type in a `Res<...>` parameter, so a substring test is exact enough
+                    // and cannot be fooled by a comment (comments naming a type still mean someone
+                    // thought about it, which is the point).
+                    if !chain.contains(&ty) {
+                        missing.push(format!("{ty} (in {})", path.display()));
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        assert!(
+            missing.is_empty(),
+            "these NpcSession windows own no `\"npc\"` portrait and are not on the exclusion \
+             list, so each renders a BLACK DISC where the NPC's face goes — wire them into \
+             `feed_interact_npc`'s chain, or add them to EXCLUDED with a reason: {missing:#?}"
+        );
+    }
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_stable.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_stable.rs
index 416cb575..2c0aa24d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_stable.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_stable.rs
@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ impl Plugin for UiStablePlugin {
                     close_npc_session_out_of_range::<StableOpen>.before(feed_stable),
                     feed_stable.before(UiInput),
                     drain_stable.after(UiInput),
+                    // AFTER the VM ticks, unlike every other booth feed: this one reads the
+                    // *selection*, which a click on a slot writes during `UiInput` — and
+                    // `PetStable_Update`'s own re-pick (`PetStable.lua:44-59`) runs inside the
+                    // event dispatch `feed_stable` performs. Reading it before the tick would show
+                    // the previous pet for a frame after every click.
+                    feed_stable_booth.after(UiInput),
                 ),
             );
     }
@@ -327,6 +333,85 @@ fn drain_stable(
     }
 }
 
+/// Point the stable window's model pane at the pet `GetSelectedStablePet()` names — the app half of
+/// the reference's `SetPetStablePaperdoll` (wow-re `ui/scratch/stable-master-window.md` §7.1).
+///
+/// **The reference's own fork, and it is the whole of this system.** On `[0xb72250] == -1` — the
+/// summoned pet — it resolves the live pet by GUID and takes `[unit+0xb30]`'s model; the resolve
+/// failing (`0x4cb9bc`) falls through to the *same* path everything else takes: map the selection
+/// back to a record, and go through the **creature cache** on that record's creature entry, with a
+/// callback that fires `PET_STABLE_UPDATE_PAPERDOLL` when a late answer lands.
+///
+/// So the pane has two sources and one of them is not a unit at all:
+///
+/// - A **live** pet gets [`StableBooth::unit`], and the pane is the pet paper doll's case exactly
+///   (decision 1057) — the booth mirrors the world body.
+/// - Everything else gets [`StableBooth::display_id`], off the creature query's
+///   [`crate::names::CreatureRecord::display_id`]. That covers every stabled pet *and* slot 0 while
+///   the pet is dismissed or too far to summon: the server still sends its row, and the reference
+///   still draws it.
+///
+/// A selection with no answer yet is `None`/`None`, which empties the pane; the query's arrival
+/// re-points it on a later frame, which is what the reference's cache callback is for.
+fn feed_stable_booth(
+    script: Option<NonSendMut<UiScript>>,
+    open: Res<StableOpen>,
+    bar: Res<crate::ui_pet::PetBar>,
+    pet: crate::ui_pet::PetUnit,
+    names: Res<NameCache>,
+    mut booth: ResMut<crate::portrait::StableBooth>,
+) {
+    let Some(mut script) = script else {
+        return;
+    };
+    // Written every frame, selection or none — a stale yaw would snap the model the moment one is
+    // picked (the pet paper doll's arrangement).
+    booth.yaw = script.stable_yaw();
+
+    // `GetSelectedStablePet()`'s own answer: `0` = the summoned pet, `1..=2` a bought stable slot,
+    // `-1` nothing. Reading the binding's translation rather than the raw petNumber is deliberate —
+    // it is what already degrades a *stale* selection (a pet the latest list no longer holds) to
+    // "nothing" instead of to a wrong slot.
+    let slot = script.stable_selection();
+
+    let live_pet = bar.spells.pet_guid;
+    let (unit, display_id) = stable_subject(
+        slot,
+        (live_pet != 0).then(|| pet.entity(live_pet)).flatten(),
+        &open.pets,
+        |entry| names.creature_record(entry).map(|r| r.display_id),
+    );
+    booth.unit = unit;
+    booth.display_id = display_id;
+}
+
+/// The selection → `(live unit, display id)` fork, pure so the law is testable without a VM, a
+/// wire or a world (module doc on [`feed_stable_booth`] for the reference's shape).
+///
+/// **The live arm consults no row at all** — §7.1's `[0xb72250] == -1` branch reads the live pet's
+/// GUID out of `[0xb714a0]` and takes its model; the stable array is not in that path. So a
+/// summoned pet is drawn from its world body whether or not the list happened to carry its row.
+///
+/// **The display arm is resolved regardless**, because that is the reference's own order: the live
+/// resolve failing (a dismissed pet, an object that has not streamed) falls straight through to the
+/// creature cache, and having the answer already in hand means the pane does not blank for the
+/// frames a pet spends being dismissed. `0` is the template's "no display" and reads as no answer —
+/// the reference's cache miss draws nothing either.
+fn stable_subject(
+    slot: i32,
+    live_pet: Option<Entity>,
+    pets: &[StabledPet],
+    display_of: impl Fn(u32) -> Option<u32>,
+) -> (Option<Entity>, Option<u32>) {
+    let unit = if slot == 0 { live_pet } else { None };
+    let display = u8::try_from(slot)
+        .ok()
+        .and_then(|slot| pets.iter().find(|p| p.slot == slot))
+        .and_then(|row| display_of(row.creature_entry))
+        .filter(|&d| d != 0);
+    (unit, display)
+}
+
 /// Stable refusals staged for the feed to surface on the window's error line — only ever
 /// `ERR_NOT_ENOUGH_MONEY`, the single code the client speaks for (decision 1677).
 #[derive(Resource, Default)]
@@ -336,3 +421,87 @@ pub(crate) struct StableErrors(pub(crate) Vec<String>);
 /// table quotes `0`, which is the same shape as "past the ladder": degraded, never wrong.
 #[derive(Resource)]
 pub(crate) struct StableSlotPrices(pub(crate) benilla_formats::StableSlotPrices);
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn row(slot: u8, entry: u32) -> StabledPet {
+        StabledPet {
+            pet_number: u32::from(slot) + 100,
+            creature_entry: entry,
+            level: 30,
+            name: format!("pet{slot}"),
+            loyalty: 6,
+            slot,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// One display per entry; entry `9` is the template that ships none.
+    fn display_of(entry: u32) -> Option<u32> {
+        match entry {
+            1 => Some(4449),
+            2 => Some(822),
+            9 => Some(0),
+            _ => None,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The whole fork, arm by arm — this is what a blank pane looks like when it is wrong, and no
+    /// build gate can see it.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_selection_forks_between_a_live_body_and_a_bare_display() {
+        let pets = [row(0, 1), row(1, 2)];
+        let live = Entity::from_raw_u32(7).expect("a test entity id");
+
+        // Nothing selected: neither source, so the pane empties.
+        assert_eq!(
+            stable_subject(-1, Some(live), &pets, display_of),
+            (None, None)
+        );
+
+        // Slot 0 with the pet out: the world body, and the display resolved beside it so a dismiss
+        // does not blank the pane.
+        assert_eq!(
+            stable_subject(0, Some(live), &pets, display_of),
+            (Some(live), Some(4449))
+        );
+
+        // Slot 0 with the pet dismissed (a row, no live guid): the display alone — the case that
+        // has no world entity anywhere and the whole reason the stand-in exists.
+        assert_eq!(
+            stable_subject(0, None, &pets, display_of),
+            (None, Some(4449))
+        );
+
+        // A stabled slot NEVER takes the live body, even while a pet is out: the reference's live
+        // arm is gated on the selection being the summoned pet, not on one existing.
+        assert_eq!(
+            stable_subject(1, Some(live), &pets, display_of),
+            (None, Some(822))
+        );
+
+        // A slot with no row (never bought, or empty) and a slot past the window: nothing.
+        assert_eq!(
+            stable_subject(2, Some(live), &pets, display_of),
+            (None, None)
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// A row whose creature query has not answered yet, and one whose template ships display `0`,
+    /// both read as "no answer" — the reference's cache miss, which draws nothing rather than
+    /// drawing wrong.
+    #[test]
+    fn an_unanswered_or_display_less_template_empties_the_pane() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            stable_subject(1, None, &[row(1, 404)], display_of),
+            (None, None),
+            "the query has not landed yet"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            stable_subject(1, None, &[row(1, 9)], display_of),
+            (None, None),
+            "the template ships no display"
+        );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/framexml.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/framexml.rs
index dd7b87fa..829d54f3 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/framexml.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/framexml.rs
@@ -57,6 +57,16 @@ impl Element {
             .is_some_and(|v| v.eq_ignore_ascii_case("true"))
     }
 
+    /// The same, but **presence-aware** — `None` when the attribute is absent.
+    ///
+    /// [`attr_bool`](Self::attr_bool) folds "absent" and `="false"` together, which is fine for a
+    /// flag whose default is off and *silently wrong* for one whose default is on: it turns an
+    /// explicit opt-out into a no-op. `<EditBox autoFocus="false">` is exactly that flag, and the
+    /// shipped UI writes it ten times.
+    pub fn attr_bool_opt(&self, name: &str) -> Option<bool> {
+        self.attr(name).map(|v| v.eq_ignore_ascii_case("true"))
+    }
+
     /// The `name` attribute, if any.
     pub fn name(&self) -> Option<&str> {
         self.attr("name")
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/tests.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/tests.rs
index 39a94660..9cf2699b 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/tests.rs
@@ -876,6 +876,46 @@ mod loader_tests {
         assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
     }
 
+    /// **`autoFocus="false"` is an opt-OUT, and the only reason the attribute is ever written.**
+    ///
+    /// The ctor leaves `flags = 1` — autoFocus ON — so every one of the ten places the shipped
+    /// 1.12.1 chain names the attribute names it to turn the flag *off* (MailFrame ×3,
+    /// MoneyInputFrame ×3, FriendsFrame ×3, AddonList ×1). The flag loop used to call the setter
+    /// only when an attribute parsed as `true`, which made all ten a no-op: harmless while our own
+    /// default was off, and exactly backwards once it matches the client's (decision 1686).
+    ///
+    /// Both directions asserted, because a presence-blind reader passes the `true` half.
+    #[test]
+    fn an_editbox_flag_written_false_in_xml_turns_the_flag_off() {
+        let s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        let doc = parse(
+            r#"<Ui>
+                <EditBox name="OptOut" autoFocus="false"/>
+                <EditBox name="OptIn" autoFocus="true"/>
+                <EditBox name="Silent"/>
+            </Ui>"#,
+        );
+        let report = load(&s, &doc, &no_files);
+        assert!(report.errors.is_empty(), "errors: {:?}", report.errors);
+
+        // The box is hidden first so the Show() is a real transition; an autoFocus box takes the
+        // keyboard on show, which is the observable the flag actually drives.
+        for (name, want) in [("OptOut", false), ("OptIn", true), ("Silent", true)] {
+            s.run(&format!(
+                "{name}:Hide(); {name}:ClearFocus(); {name}:Show()"
+            ))
+            .unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(
+                s.eval::<bool>(&format!("return {name}:HasFocus()"))
+                    .unwrap(),
+                want,
+                "{name}: autoFocus should be {want} (absent = the ctor default, ON)",
+            );
+            s.run(&format!("{name}:ClearFocus()")).unwrap();
+        }
+        assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
+    }
+
     // ── TexCoords + Font objects (decision 0084 engine slice) ───────────────────────────────────
 
     /// `<TexCoords left right top bottom>` on a `<Texture>` parses into the region's UV rect and
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/widgets.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/widgets.rs
index d465b1e4..4297af3a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/widgets.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/widgets.rs
@@ -276,10 +276,19 @@ impl Loader<'_> {
     /// `<EditBox>` extras (RF-0082 §"THE STRUCTURAL KEY"/§3): the `letters` cap → SetMaxLetters,
     /// `historyLines` → SetHistoryLines (the submitted-line recall ring), and the config flags
     /// `autoFocus`/`numeric`/`password`/`multiLine`/`ignoreArrows` → their setters.
-    /// A flag absent from the XML stays at its ctor default (`false`) — a **documented divergence**
-    /// from the UI.xsd, whose `autoFocus` default is `true`; benilla applies the C++ ctor default
-    /// (flags=0) uniformly for CreateFrame and XML, since autoFocus never focuses on show and click
-    /// focus is unconditional, so the practical effect is confined to keyboard self-acquire.
+    /// A flag absent from the XML stays at its ctor default, and the ctor's own value is
+    /// `flags = 1` — **`autoFocus` defaults ON**, every other flag off (`0x779a29 mov eax,1` /
+    /// `0x779a2e mov [esi+0x318],eax`; LoadXML's `autoFocus` leg writes nothing for an absent or
+    /// empty attribute, `0x77a0b3`/`0x77a0b8`). So the UI.xsd's `true` default is the client's too,
+    /// and the divergence documented here — benilla applying `flags = 0` uniformly — is retired
+    /// (decision 1686). Its stated justification, "autoFocus never focuses on show", was wow-re's
+    /// own `call`-only-census error, corrected 2026-08-29.
+    ///
+    /// **The flags are read presence-aware.** This loop used to call the setter only when an
+    /// attribute parsed as `true`, so `autoFocus="false"` was a no-op — harmless while the default
+    /// was off, and precisely backwards once it is on: the ten boxes in the shipped chain that opt
+    /// OUT (MailFrame ×3, MoneyInputFrame ×3, FriendsFrame ×3, AddonList ×1) are the only places
+    /// the attribute appears at all.
     /// `<TextInsets>` maps to `SetTextInsets`; `blinkSpeed` → SetBlinkSpeed (the caret
     /// half-period, `E+0x370`). A declared `<FontString>` is ASSIGNED as the box's text region by
     /// the special-fontstring pass (`adopt_text_region` — the engine's LoadXML slot, never a
@@ -326,8 +335,8 @@ impl Loader<'_> {
             ("multiLine", "SetMultiLine"),
             ("ignoreArrows", "SetIgnoreArrows"),
         ] {
-            if el.attr_bool(attr) {
-                self.call(wrapper, method, true, dbg);
+            if let Some(on) = el.attr_bool_opt(attr) {
+                self.call(wrapper, method, on, dbg);
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/container.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/container.rs
index 93753050..557aa0e7 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/container.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/container.rs
@@ -18,6 +18,33 @@ use mlua::{Lua, Value};
 use super::cursor::{self, CursorItem, CursorPayload};
 use super::Model;
 
+/// The charter/petition lines an item tooltip prints under its name — wow-re
+/// `system/ui/scratch/tooltip-content-law.md`'s **line 3**: *"(petition/guild-charter items) Title /
+/// Creator / Num-signatures (white; title wraps) — a resolved petition object; keys
+/// `PETITION_*`/`GUILD_CHARTER_*`"*.
+///
+/// The two key families are picked by [`Self::is_charter`], the same record bit that picks
+/// `GetPetitionInfo`'s first return — so a charter reads *"Guild Name:"* / *"Guild Master:"* and a
+/// plain petition reads *"Petition:"* / *"Created by"*.
+///
+/// **The third line, the signature count, is deliberately NOT here.** The law names it, but neither
+/// the carve nor the packet says where the number comes from: the petition record carries no count,
+/// and the only candidate — the item's `ITEM_FIELD_ENCHANTMENT` slot-0 *charges* dword, which
+/// vmangos's own source documents as "the on-item signature count" — has its write **commented
+/// out** server-side, so it is always zero and the guess could never be falsified here. Omitted
+/// rather than invented; the line is one field away the day someone pins the source.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
+pub struct PetitionSlotView {
+    /// The record's charter bit: `true` picks the `GUILD_CHARTER_*` keys, `false` the `PETITION_*`
+    /// ones.
+    pub is_charter: bool,
+    /// The proposed guild's (or petition's) name.
+    pub title: String,
+    /// The owner's name, app-resolved through the name cache. `None` while that query is in
+    /// flight — the line is withheld, as the creator line is, rather than printed with a hole.
+    pub owner: Option<String>,
+}
+
 /// One occupied bag slot, resolved by the app (icon from ItemDisplayInfo, count/quality from the
 /// item object + template). Plain data.
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, PartialEq)]
@@ -78,6 +105,14 @@ pub struct ContainerSlot {
     /// hands over the row's name plus the three facts the line law needs to place and paint it.
     /// Empty = unenchanted, or the enchant DBC never loaded. Decisions 0915/0920.
     pub enchants: Vec<super::EnchantView>,
+    /// The petition this item names, when it is a signable charter — **line 3 of the tooltip's
+    /// emission law**, between the NAME and the green `ITEM_SIGNABLE` line.
+    ///
+    /// `None` for every ordinary item, and also for a charter whose petition record has not
+    /// arrived: the hover is what ISSUES that query, so the first hover of an unopened charter
+    /// shows the name and the green line, and the two guild lines appear on the repaint. Exactly
+    /// [`Self::creator`]'s shape one field up, for exactly its reason.
+    pub petition: Option<PetitionSlotView>,
 }
 
 /// One enchant slot as the tooltip renders it (wow-re `ui/scratch/tooltip-content-law.md` §E3,
@@ -718,6 +753,7 @@ mod tests {
         slots.insert(
             1,
             ContainerSlot {
+                petition: None,
                 already_bound: false,
                 bar_placeable: true,
                 durability: None,
@@ -883,6 +919,7 @@ mod tests {
         state.slots.insert(
             5,
             ContainerSlot {
+                petition: None,
                 already_bound: false,
                 bar_placeable: true,
                 durability: None,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor.rs
index d1c95de7..edea1052 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor.rs
@@ -657,6 +657,7 @@ mod tests {
         slots.insert(
             1,
             crate::script::container::ContainerSlot {
+                petition: None,
                 already_bound: false,
                 bar_placeable: true,
                 durability: None,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor/doll.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor/doll.rs
index 59d82817..dcb015be 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor/doll.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cursor/doll.rs
@@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ mod tests {
         slots.insert(
             1,
             ContainerSlot {
+                petition: None,
                 already_bound: false,
                 bar_placeable: true,
                 durability: None,
@@ -494,6 +495,7 @@ mod tests {
         slots.insert(
             3,
             ContainerSlot {
+                petition: None,
                 already_bound: false,
                 bar_placeable: true,
                 durability: None,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/editbox.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/editbox.rs
index 147b97e3..38bab62c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/editbox.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/editbox.rs
@@ -5,10 +5,19 @@
 //!
 //! - **Focus (§1):** a single class-owned focus owner ([`Model::focused_editbox`], the client's
 //!   `DAT_00cf4dc8`). `SetFocus` gates on effective-visibility, is a no-op if already focused, and
-//!   fires `OnEditFocusLost` on the old box then `OnEditFocusGained` on the new. `autoFocus` does NOT
-//!   focus on show — it only lets a box self-acquire on the first keyboard/char event while nothing is
-//!   focused (verified by absence: no OnShow/OnLoad `SetFocus` caller). A LeftButton click focuses
-//!   UNCONDITIONALLY.
+//!   fires `OnEditFocusLost` on the old box then `OnEditFocusGained` on the new. A LeftButton click
+//!   focuses UNCONDITIONALLY — and **collapses the selection to the clicked byte index** on its way
+//!   (`0x77b86f call 0x77ccf0`, immediately before `0x77b881 SetFocus`), so a fresh click-focus leaves
+//!   an EMPTY selection at the click point, never a select-all. `SetFocus` itself writes no selection
+//!   field, and `0x77e3f6` is the only instruction image-wide that gives a box focus — so *every*
+//!   focus gain, whatever triggers it, is selection-neutral.
+//!
+//!   **`autoFocus` DOES focus on show** (corrected 2026-08-29, wow-re `editbox-selection-focus-law.md`
+//!   §6): the OnShow override tail-jumps `SetFocus` when nothing else holds focus, and the OnHide
+//!   mirror tail-jumps `ClearFocus`. The old "verified by absence" negative came from a `call`-only
+//!   census that could not see a tail-`jmp`. **Not implemented here yet** — see [`EditBoxState::
+//!   auto_focus`](crate::widget::EditBoxState::auto_focus) for why it waits on the attribute default.
+//!   The self-acquire-on-first-key half stands and is what this module implements.
 //! - **Routing (§2):** a focused box processes and CONSUMES every key/char (`return 1` past the
 //!   guard); an unfocused non-autoFocus box ignores input. The override fires ONLY the specialized
 //!   scripts (Enter/Escape/Space/Tab/TextChanged/TextSet/focus), never generic `OnKeyDown`/`OnChar`.
@@ -217,6 +226,10 @@ fn topmost_autofocus(lua: &Lua) -> Option<FrameHandle> {
 
 /// `SetFocus` (`0x77e3d0`): gate on effective-visibility, no-op if already focused; else fire
 /// `OnEditFocusLost` on the old box, move focus, fire `OnEditFocusGained` on the new.
+///
+/// `0x77e3f6` (inside this) is the ONLY instruction image-wide that grants a box the focus, and it
+/// writes no selection field — so every focus gain in the client, whatever triggers it, is
+/// selection-neutral.
 fn set_focus_handle(lua: &Lua, h: FrameHandle) {
     let (old_id, new_id) = {
         let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
@@ -243,7 +256,43 @@ fn set_focus_handle(lua: &Lua, h: FrameHandle) {
     fire_script(lua, new_id, "OnEditFocusGained");
 }
 
-/// `ClearFocus` (`0x77e410`): only if this box holds focus; fire `OnEditFocusLost`.
+/// The EditBox's own **OnShow/OnHide vtable overrides** (`0x81c910` slots +0x30/+0x34), run by
+/// [`crate::script::event::fire_visibility_changes`] after the frame's Lua handler — the order the
+/// reference has, since both overrides call the base notify *first* and only then act.
+///
+/// - **Show** (`0x77a750`): `if ([0xcf4dc8] == 0 && (flags & 1)) SetFocus(this)` — an `autoFocus`
+///   box grabs the keyboard when it appears, **iff nothing else holds it**. Not a
+///   "topmost/best" choice: whichever box's show runs first while the focus is free takes it.
+/// - **Hide** (`0x77a780`): tail-jumps `ClearFocus`, whose own guard makes it per-box — hiding a
+///   box that does not hold the keyboard writes nothing and fires nothing.
+///
+/// Both were missing until 2026-08-29 (decision 1686). wow-re had published "autoFocus does NOT
+/// focus on show — VERIFIED by enumerating callers" off a census written over `call` alone, which
+/// cannot see the override's tail-`jmp`; benilla had transcribed the negative.
+pub(super) fn visibility_focus(lua: &Lua, h: FrameHandle, visible: bool) {
+    if !visible {
+        // The guard lives in `clear_focus_handle`, exactly as it does in `0x77e410` — so this is
+        // called unconditionally here, like the reference's own unconditional tail-jmp.
+        clear_focus_handle(lua, h);
+        return;
+    }
+    let wants = {
+        let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+        model.focused_editbox.is_none()
+            && matches!(
+                model.arena.frame(h).map(|f| &f.kind_state),
+                Some(KindState::EditBox(eb)) if eb.auto_focus,
+            )
+    };
+    if wants {
+        // `SetFocus` re-checks effective-visibility itself, which is the reference's gate too.
+        set_focus_handle(lua, h);
+    }
+}
+
+/// `ClearFocus` (`0x77e410`): only if this box holds focus; fire `OnEditFocusLost`. The guard is
+/// `mov eax,ecx; mov ecx,[0xcf4dc8]; cmp ecx,eax; jne ret` — verified per-box, which is what makes
+/// the OnHide override's *unconditional* tail-jmp into it harmless.
 fn clear_focus_handle(lua: &Lua, h: FrameHandle) {
     let id = {
         let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
@@ -272,6 +321,23 @@ fn insert(lua: &Lua, h: FrameHandle, ins: &str, fire_space: bool) {
     }
     sync_text_region(lua, h);
     let id = frame_id_of(lua, h);
+    // **The EditBox DOES fire generic `OnChar`** — with the spliced string as `arg1`, from inside
+    // Insert itself (`0x77c13c`, the varargs firer `0x7026f0` with fmt `"%s"`), before the dirty
+    // flush gets round to `OnTextChanged`. RF-0082's "never generic `OnKeyDown`/`OnChar`" was
+    // scoped to one member of a two-member fire family and missed the varargs half; the
+    // `OnKeyDown` (`+0x188`) half of that claim stands (wow-re, corrected 2026-08-29). It rides
+    // the one choke point every insert path goes through — typed char, the `|`→`||` escape, the
+    // multiLine Enter newline, the Lua `Insert` — and so is absent from `SetText`, which is where
+    // the reference has it absent too.
+    let on_char = lua
+        .create_string(ins)
+        .and_then(|s| event::fire_widget_handler(lua, id, "OnChar", vec![mlua::Value::String(s)]));
+    if let Err(e) = on_char {
+        lua.app_data_mut::<Model>()
+            .expect("model app_data")
+            .errors
+            .push(e.to_string());
+    }
     fire_script(lua, id, "OnTextChanged");
     if fire_space {
         for _ in 0..out.spaces {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/editbox/tests.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/editbox/tests.rs
index 1c218dfe..081b1958 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/editbox/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/editbox/tests.rs
@@ -39,10 +39,95 @@ fn autofocus_does_not_focus_on_show_but_self_acquires_first_event() {
     assert_eq!(s.eval::<String>("return E:GetText()").unwrap(), "a");
 }
 
+/// **An `autoFocus` box takes the keyboard when it is shown** — the OnShow vtable override
+/// (`0x81c910` slot +0x30, `0x77a750`), missing here until decision 1686 because wow-re's own
+/// "verified by absence" negative came from a `call`-only census that could not see its tail-`jmp`.
+/// Gated on nothing else holding focus, and the gate is the whole of it — no topmost/best choice.
+#[test]
+fn an_autofocus_box_takes_the_keyboard_when_it_is_shown() {
+    let s = script();
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        E = CreateFrame("EditBox", "E")
+        E:Hide()
+        E:ClearFocus()
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    assert!(!s.has_keyboard_focus(), "hidden and unfocused to start");
+
+    s.run("E:Show()").unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        s.eval::<bool>("return E:HasFocus()").unwrap(),
+        "showing an autoFocus box focuses it",
+    );
+
+    // Hiding the box that holds the keyboard releases it (the mirror override, slot +0x34).
+    s.run("E:Hide()").unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        !s.has_keyboard_focus(),
+        "hiding the focused box releases the keyboard",
+    );
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
+/// The two gates, each shown to bite. A box that opted out does not take the keyboard on show; and
+/// a box that would have is refused while another still holds it — the reference's
+/// `if ([0xcf4dc8] == 0 && (flags & 1))`, both halves.
+#[test]
+fn the_show_focus_is_refused_without_autofocus_or_with_the_keyboard_taken() {
+    let s = script();
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        OPTED_OUT = CreateFrame("EditBox", "OptedOut")
+        OPTED_OUT:SetAutoFocus(false)
+        OPTED_OUT:Hide()
+        OPTED_OUT:ClearFocus()
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    s.run("OPTED_OUT:Show()").unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        !s.has_keyboard_focus(),
+        "autoFocus=false is an opt-out that holds on show",
+    );
+
+    // Now give the keyboard away, and show an autoFocus box into an occupied focus.
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        HOLDER = CreateFrame("EditBox", "Holder")
+        HOLDER:SetFocus()
+        LATE = CreateFrame("EditBox", "Late")
+        LATE:Hide()
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    s.run("LATE:Show()").unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        s.eval::<bool>("return HOLDER:HasFocus()").unwrap(),
+        "a shown autoFocus box does not steal a focus that is already held",
+    );
+    assert!(!s.eval::<bool>("return LATE:HasFocus()").unwrap());
+
+    // And hiding a box that does NOT hold the keyboard leaves it where it is — `0x77e410`'s own
+    // per-box guard (`cmp ecx,eax; jne ret`), which is what makes the override's unconditional
+    // tail-jmp harmless.
+    s.run("LATE:Hide()").unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        s.eval::<bool>("return HOLDER:HasFocus()").unwrap(),
+        "hiding an unfocused box does not clear somebody else's focus",
+    );
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn non_autofocus_unfocused_box_ignores_input() {
     let mut s = script();
-    s.run(r#"E = CreateFrame("EditBox", "E")"#).unwrap();
+    // `SetAutoFocus(false)` explicitly: the ctor's `flags = 1` leaves autoFocus **ON** by default
+    // (`0x779a29`/`0x779a2e`, decision 1686), so a bare `CreateFrame("EditBox")` is an autoFocus
+    // box and would self-acquire on the first char. This test is about the other kind.
+    s.run(r#"E = CreateFrame("EditBox", "E"); E:SetAutoFocus(false)"#)
+        .unwrap();
     assert!(!s.char_input("a"), "no focus, no autoFocus → not consumed");
     assert!(!s.editbox_action(EditAction::Move {
         unit: EditUnit::Char,
@@ -250,7 +335,8 @@ fn paste_inserts_at_the_cursor_and_replaces_the_selection() {
 #[test]
 fn paste_into_an_unfocused_box_is_not_consumed() {
     let mut s = script();
-    s.run(r#"E = CreateFrame("EditBox", "E")"#).unwrap();
+    s.run(r#"E = CreateFrame("EditBox", "E"); E:SetAutoFocus(false)"#)
+        .unwrap();
     assert!(!s.paste("hi"), "no focus, no autoFocus → not consumed");
     assert_eq!(s.eval::<String>("return E:GetText()").unwrap(), "");
 }
@@ -458,37 +544,65 @@ fn get_number_parses_the_text() {
 // ── the EditBox override never fires generic OnChar/OnKeyDown (§2) ────────────────────────────
 
 #[test]
-fn key_and_char_paths_never_fire_generic_handlers() {
-    // The law (wow-re `frame-key-script-delivery.md` §1): `CSimpleEditBox` has its OWN input
-    // vtable (`0x77a900` char / `0x77b160` key-down) which handles the event and **never chains to
-    // the base implementation** — so a focused box's typing does not also run a generic `OnChar`
-    // bound on that same box.
-    //
-    // This used to be proved by `SetScript("OnChar", …)` *raising*, which it no longer does
-    // (decision 1319 made the three key names real). The invariant is unchanged and is now
-    // asserted directly: bind the generic handler, type into the focused box, and watch the text
-    // arrive with the handler never called.
+fn typing_fires_the_generic_on_char_with_what_was_inserted() {
+    // **The half of the old law that was wrong** (wow-re, corrected 2026-08-29; decision 1686).
+    // `CSimpleEditBox` has its own input vtable which does not chain to the base — but Insert
+    // itself fires the generic `OnChar` slot (`+0x180`) at `0x77c13c`, through the **varargs**
+    // firer `0x7026f0` with fmt `"%s"` and the spliced string as the argument. The published
+    // negative came from censusing only the fixed-arity firer `0x702690`: one member of a
+    // two-member family.
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        got = {}
+        E = CreateFrame("EditBox", "E")
+        E:EnableKeyboard(true)
+        E:SetScript("OnChar", function() table.insert(got, arg1) end)
+        E:SetFocus()
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    assert!(s.char_input("k"), "the focused box consumed the character");
+    assert_eq!(s.eval::<String>("return E:GetText()").unwrap(), "k");
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>("return table.concat(got, ',')").unwrap(),
+        "k",
+        "OnChar fires once, with the inserted string",
+    );
+
+    // `SetText` is NOT an insert path and fires nothing — the seam the reference has too.
+    s.run(r#"E:SetText("zzz")"#).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>("return table.concat(got, ',')").unwrap(),
+        "k",
+        "SetText does not run Insert, so it does not fire OnChar",
+    );
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn key_paths_never_fire_the_generic_on_key_down() {
+    // The surviving half (wow-re `frame-key-script-delivery.md` §1): the box's own key-down
+    // vtable (`0x77b160`) handles the event and never chains to the base, so a focused box's
+    // typing does not also run a generic `OnKeyDown` bound on that same box. Only the `OnChar`
+    // half of the original claim was corrected — this one was re-censused and stands.
     let mut s = script();
     s.run(
         r#"
         fired = 0
         E = CreateFrame("EditBox", "E")
         E:EnableKeyboard(true)
-        E:SetScript("OnChar", function() fired = fired + 1 end)
+        E:SetScript("OnKeyDown", function() fired = fired + 1 end)
         E:SetFocus()
     "#,
     )
     .unwrap();
     assert!(s.char_input("k"), "the focused box consumed the character");
-    assert_eq!(
-        s.eval::<String>("return E:GetText()").unwrap(),
-        "k",
-        "…by inserting it through its own path"
-    );
+    assert_eq!(s.eval::<String>("return E:GetText()").unwrap(), "k");
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<i64>("return fired").unwrap(),
         0,
-        "the box's own vtable never chains to the generic OnChar"
+        "the box's own vtable never chains to the generic OnKeyDown"
     );
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
 }
@@ -1120,3 +1234,23 @@ fn max_letters_counts_visible_letters_not_escape_bytes() {
     assert_eq!(text_of(&s), LINK);
     assert_eq!(s.eval::<i64>("return E:GetNumLetters()").unwrap(), 9);
 }
+
+/// **Creating a box is not showing it** — and that is what keeps the on-show self-focus safe now
+/// that autoFocus defaults ON (decision 1686). A frame born visible is not an effective-visibility
+/// *transition*, so it never runs the OnShow override; only a real `Show()` does. Without this,
+/// loading the shipped chain would hand the keyboard to whichever edit box happened to be
+/// constructed first, and typing would go into it instead of to the game.
+///
+/// Pinned because it is load-bearing by *absence*: nothing in the on-show path mentions creation,
+/// so the day frame construction starts firing OnShow, this is the test that says what it costs.
+#[test]
+fn creating_a_box_does_not_focus_it_the_way_showing_one_does() {
+    let s = script();
+    s.run(r#"E = CreateFrame("EditBox", "E")"#).unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        !s.has_keyboard_focus(),
+        "a box born visible has not been SHOWN, so it takes no keyboard",
+    );
+    assert!(!s.eval::<bool>("return E:HasFocus()").unwrap());
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/event.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/event.rs
index 90d3b8e5..ef837acb 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/event.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/event.rs
@@ -194,6 +194,14 @@ pub(super) fn fire_visibility_changes(lua: &Lua, changed: Vec<FrameHandle>) {
                 .expect("model")
                 .record_script_error(e.to_string());
         }
+        // **And the EditBox's own OnShow/OnHide vtable overrides** (`0x81c910` +0x30/+0x34): an
+        // `autoFocus` box grabs the keyboard when it appears if nothing else holds it, and hiding
+        // the box that holds it releases it. Both overrides call the base notify FIRST and act
+        // after, which is why this sits below the `fire` and not above it. A no-op for every frame
+        // that is not an EditBox. Here rather than at the Lua `Show`/`Hide` bindings for the same
+        // reason the toplevel raise is: every visibility transition this engine performs runs
+        // through this seam, and a second one is how a path gets forgotten.
+        super::editbox::visibility_focus(lua, h, visible);
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs
index 6d1c49da..4bdefd29 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs
@@ -158,7 +158,8 @@ pub use char_stats::{
 pub use chat_send::ChatSend;
 pub use chat_window::ChatWindowLook;
 pub use container::{
-    ContainerMove, ContainerSlot, ContainerState, EnchantView, RandomPropertyView, UiCursorMode,
+    ContainerMove, ContainerSlot, ContainerState, EnchantView, PetitionSlotView,
+    RandomPropertyView, UiCursorMode,
 };
 pub use craft::{CraftReagent, CraftRecipe, CraftState, CraftTooltip};
 pub use cursor::{
@@ -1119,8 +1120,10 @@ impl UiScript {
     // benilla speaks *key names*, not scancodes — the host maps its window keycodes to these. The
     // routing is the client's exactly: if a box is focused it processes and CONSUMES every event; if
     // none is focused, the topmost effectively-visible `autoFocus` box self-acquires focus and
-    // processes this same event; otherwise nothing is consumed. `autoFocus` never focuses on show —
-    // only this self-acquire path, a click, or Lua `SetFocus` focuses a box.
+    // processes this same event; otherwise nothing is consumed. Today the ways a box gets focus here
+    // are this self-acquire path, a click, and Lua `SetFocus` — the reference has a fourth, an
+    // `autoFocus` box focusing itself on SHOW, which we do not implement yet (the flag's own doc
+    // carries the correction and what it waits on).
 
     /// A typed character (may be multi-byte UTF-8) arriving from the host. Routes per §1/§2 and, on a
     /// focused box, inserts it (numeric/cap/password rules apply) or — for the Ctrl+A control code —
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/stable.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/stable.rs
index c28f03fd..ac046ebe 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/stable.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/stable.rs
@@ -145,6 +145,13 @@ pub(crate) struct StableModel {
     pub(crate) selected: i32,
     pub(crate) intents: Vec<StableIntent>,
     pub(crate) close: bool,
+    /// The model pane's bake yaw, in radians — the fifth of the pane scalars beside
+    /// `paperdoll_yaw` / `inspect_yaw` / `pet_paperdoll_yaw` / `dressup_yaw`, written by
+    /// `BenillaStableModel_SetFacing` and sampled each frame by the app onto the `"stable"` booth
+    /// slot. It lives on the window's own transient state rather than on [`super::Model`] because
+    /// that is what it is: a pane facing that must survive the snapshot replacement every list
+    /// packet performs, exactly like [`Self::selected`].
+    pub(crate) yaw: f32,
 }
 
 /// The zero state is the client's `0` — "nothing selected" — not `-1`, which is its encoding for
@@ -159,6 +166,9 @@ impl Default for StableModel {
             selected: 0,
             intents: Vec::new(),
             close: false,
+            // `0.0` like every other pane scalar: `BenillaPaperDollModel_OnLoad` seeds the
+            // reference's own 0.61 default through `frame.setFacing` when the window loads.
+            yaw: 0.0,
         }
     }
 }
@@ -201,6 +211,13 @@ impl super::UiScript {
         let model = self.model_mut();
         selected_slot(&model.stable)
     }
+
+    /// The stable model pane's bake yaw (`BenillaStableModel_SetFacing` wrote it) — the exact twin
+    /// of [`Self::paperdoll_yaw`] / [`Self::pet_paperdoll_yaw`], sampled each frame by the app onto
+    /// the `"stable"` booth slot.
+    pub fn stable_yaw(&self) -> f32 {
+        self.model_ref().stable.yaw
+    }
 }
 
 /// The petNumber→slot translation behind `GetSelectedStablePet` (§7.1).
@@ -560,6 +577,22 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         })?,
     )?;
 
+    // BenillaStableModel_SetFacing(radians) — the stable pane's own bake yaw, the exact twin of
+    // `BenillaPaperDollModel_SetFacing` / `BenillaPetPaperDollModel_SetFacing`. Benilla-named for
+    // the same reason they are: the real client's pane is a live `<PlayerModel>` widget whose
+    // `SetRotation` is a widget method, and our booth still carries one scalar (decision 0208 §5).
+    // `PetStable.xml`'s `BenillaPetStableModel_SetFacing` shim forwards to this.
+    g.set(
+        "BenillaStableModel_SetFacing",
+        lua.create_function(|lua, radians: f32| {
+            lua.app_data_mut::<Model>()
+                .expect("model app_data")
+                .stable
+                .yaw = radians;
+            Ok(())
+        })?,
+    )?;
+
     // ClosePetStables() — client-side close, no packet exists (vmangos has no close opcode): flag
     // the app to clear its session.
     g.set(
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/tooltip_item/bindings.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/tooltip_item/bindings.rs
index a7366f66..a5a864c9 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/tooltip_item/bindings.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/tooltip_item/bindings.rs
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ fn shift_compare_fires_seats_and_renders_the_compare_shape() {
     slots.insert(
         1,
         ContainerSlot {
+            petition: None,
             already_bound: false,
             bar_placeable: true,
             durability: None,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/tooltip_item/law.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/tooltip_item/law.rs
index ab63b413..cc43e005 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/tooltip_item/law.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/tooltip_item/law.rs
@@ -430,6 +430,150 @@ fn required_level_one_is_hidden() {
 /// wow-re `right-click-open.md` §1 re-derived the `p6` leg selector that had it suppressed).
 /// A **running cooldown** takes SetBagItem's other leg and suppresses the line — the two are
 /// structurally exclusive on this binding (decision 0896).
+/// **Line 3 — the charter's guild name and master**, between the NAME and the green
+/// `ITEM_SIGNABLE` (wow-re `tooltip-content-law.md`'s emission order: 2 NAME, 3 the petition
+/// triple, 4 SIGNABLE).
+///
+/// The director's report was that our charter tooltip showed the name and the green line with
+/// nothing between them, where the real client prints "Guild Name: BTC" / "Guild Master:
+/// Twowarrior". The ORDER is the half a text-only assertion would miss: these lines sit above the
+/// green one, not below it.
+///
+/// Also pinned: the two key families (a plain petition reads "Petition:" / "Created by"), and that
+/// an unresolved owner withholds only its own line — the creator line's rule, and the reason a
+/// first hover of an unopened charter is not blank but partial.
+#[test]
+fn charter_lines_sit_between_the_name_and_the_signable_line() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.set_screen_size(800.0, 600.0);
+    s.set_item_template(
+        5863,
+        ItemTemplateView {
+            name: "Guild Charter".into(),
+            quality: 1,
+            flags: 0x2000, // ITEM_FLAG_CHARTER — the green line's own gate
+            max_count: 1,
+            bonding: 1,
+            ..Default::default()
+        },
+    );
+    let charter = |p: Option<PetitionSlotView>| ContainerSlot {
+        item_id: 5863,
+        count: 1,
+        quality: Some(1),
+        already_bound: true,
+        petition: p,
+        ..Default::default()
+    };
+    let mut slots = HashMap::new();
+    slots.insert(
+        1,
+        charter(Some(PetitionSlotView {
+            is_charter: true,
+            title: "BTC".into(),
+            owner: Some("Twowarrior".into()),
+        })),
+    );
+    // The owner's name still in flight — the title line stands, its own does not.
+    slots.insert(
+        2,
+        charter(Some(PetitionSlotView {
+            is_charter: true,
+            title: "BTC".into(),
+            owner: None,
+        })),
+    );
+    // No record yet at all: the plate is the name and the green line, as it was before this.
+    slots.insert(3, charter(None));
+    // A non-charter petition takes the OTHER key family.
+    slots.insert(
+        4,
+        charter(Some(PetitionSlotView {
+            is_charter: false,
+            title: "Something".into(),
+            owner: Some("Someone".into()),
+        })),
+    );
+    s.set_container(
+        0,
+        Some(ContainerState {
+            name: Some("Backpack".into()),
+            num_slots: 4,
+            slots,
+        }),
+    );
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        local a = CreateFrame("Button", "SlotC"); a:SetPoint("CENTER", 0, 0); a:SetSize(10, 10)
+        local tt = CreateFrame("GameTooltip", "TT")
+        tt:SetOwner(a, "ANCHOR_RIGHT"); tt:SetBagItem(0, 1)
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    let lines = lines_of(&mut s);
+    let texts: Vec<&str> = lines.iter().map(|(t, _)| t.as_str()).collect();
+    assert_eq!(
+        texts,
+        vec![
+            "Guild Charter",
+            "Guild Name: BTC",
+            "Guild Master: Twowarrior",
+            "<Right Click for Details>",
+            "Soulbound",
+            "Unique",
+        ],
+        "the two guild lines sit ABOVE the green line, not below it"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(lines[1].1, [1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0], "the title line is white");
+    assert_eq!(lines[2].1, [1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0], "the master line is white");
+    assert_eq!(lines[3].1, [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0], "SIGNABLE is still green");
+
+    let hover = |s: &mut UiScript, slot: u32| {
+        s.run(&format!(
+            r#"TT:SetOwner(getglobal("SlotC"), "ANCHOR_RIGHT"); TT:SetBagItem(0, {slot})"#
+        ))
+        .unwrap();
+        lines_of(s)
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|(t, _)| t)
+            .collect::<Vec<String>>()
+    };
+    assert_eq!(
+        hover(&mut s, 2),
+        vec![
+            "Guild Charter",
+            "Guild Name: BTC",
+            "<Right Click for Details>",
+            "Soulbound",
+            "Unique"
+        ],
+        "an unresolved owner withholds ITS line only — the repaint fills it"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        hover(&mut s, 3),
+        vec![
+            "Guild Charter",
+            "<Right Click for Details>",
+            "Soulbound",
+            "Unique"
+        ],
+        "no record yet: exactly the plate we shipped before, not a blank one"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        hover(&mut s, 4),
+        vec![
+            "Guild Charter",
+            "Petition: Something",
+            "Created by Someone",
+            "<Right Click for Details>",
+            "Soulbound",
+            "Unique"
+        ],
+        "the record's charter bit picks the key family"
+    );
+    assert!(s.take_errors().is_empty());
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn instance_tail_creator_and_readable() {
     let mut s = script();
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/mod.rs
index cd5c4e43..1c0b5c1e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/mod.rs
@@ -377,6 +377,9 @@ pub(super) fn install_methods(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                                 has_text: false,
                                 flags: s.flags,
                                 already_bound: s.already_bound,
+                                // No petition line on the doll: a charter has `InventoryType = 0`
+                                // and cannot be equipped, so this hover can never be over one.
+                                petition: None,
                                 enchants: s.enchants.clone(),
                                 // `SetInventoryItem 0x532ee0` also has p6=0 legs (`0x533106`,
                                 // `0x5332ad`) — the "this binding can never emit OPENABLE" claim
@@ -464,6 +467,11 @@ pub(super) fn install_methods(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                                 has_text: s.readable,
                                 flags: s.flags,
                                 already_bound: s.already_bound,
+                                // Line 3 — the charter's guild name and master. Only the BAG hover
+                                // carries it: a charter has `InventoryType = 0` and cannot be worn,
+                                // so the doll site above has no petition to show and does not ask
+                                // its slot view for one.
+                                petition: s.petition.clone(),
                                 enchants: s.enchants.clone(),
                                 // p6 == 0 ⇔ no running cooldown. A clam shows the green line; the
                                 // same clam mid-cooldown would show ITEM_COOLDOWN_TIME instead
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/render.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/render.rs
index 3a037bea..de70f002 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/render.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip_item/render.rs
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ pub(super) struct ItemInstance {
     /// [`Self::enchants`] — that list is a *display* view and drops rows the line law hides.
     /// Drives §6's Soulbound override; `false` on every template/link source.
     pub already_bound: bool,
+    /// The petition this charter names — **line 3**, between the NAME and `ITEM_SIGNABLE`. See
+    /// [`crate::script::PetitionSlotView`], which carries the reason its third line is unbuilt.
+    pub petition: Option<crate::script::PetitionSlotView>,
     /// The instance's enchant slots, app-resolved and in slot order (law line 17 / §1-ENCHANT,
     /// decisions 0915/0920) — see [`crate::script::EnchantView`]. Empty on an unenchanted item and
     /// on every template/link source (no instance, nothing enchanted).
@@ -150,6 +153,28 @@ pub(super) fn render_view(
         .and_then(|i| i.name.clone())
         .unwrap_or_else(|| v.name.clone());
     add((name, name_color))?;
+    // Line 3 — the petition block, ABOVE the green line and below the name: "Guild Name: X" then
+    // "Guild Master: Y" for a charter, "Petition: X" / "Created by Y" for a plain petition. The
+    // keys are picked by the record's own charter bit, the same bit `GetPetitionInfo`'s first
+    // return reads.
+    //
+    // Each line is withheld while its source is unresolved rather than printed with a hole: an
+    // uncached owner name shows the title alone, and the repaint fills it in — the creator line's
+    // rule, and the reference's own (its resolve callback repaints the tooltip; ours is the
+    // container re-enter loop).
+    if let Some(p) = inst.and_then(|i| i.petition.as_ref()) {
+        let (title_fmt, creator_fmt) = if p.is_charter {
+            ("Guild Name: %s", "Guild Master: %s")
+        } else {
+            ("Petition: %s", "Created by %s")
+        };
+        if !p.title.is_empty() {
+            add((title_fmt.replacen("%s", &p.title, 1), WHITE))?;
+        }
+        if let Some(owner) = p.owner.as_deref().filter(|o| !o.is_empty()) {
+            add((creator_fmt.replacen("%s", owner, 1), WHITE))?;
+        }
+    }
     // ITEM_SIGNABLE (green) — Flags bit 0x2000 (petitions).
     if v.flags & 0x2000 != 0 {
         add(("<Right Click for Details>".into(), GREEN))?;
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/kinds/editbox.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/kinds/editbox.rs
index 6813a50c..018d908d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/kinds/editbox.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/widget/kinds/editbox.rs
@@ -60,9 +60,28 @@ pub struct EditBoxState {
     /// Selection end (`E+0x360`). A non-empty selection is `sel_start != sel_end`; every insert
     /// replaces it first (RF-0082 §3).
     pub sel_end: usize,
-    /// `autoFocus` (`flags@E+0x318` bit0): consulted **only** in the keyboard self-acquire guard —
-    /// it does NOT focus on show (RF-0082 §1). The box grabs focus the first time a key/char event
-    /// reaches it while nothing is focused, and processes that same event.
+    /// `autoFocus` (`flags@E+0x318` bit0). Two acquisition paths, and benilla implements only the
+    /// second:
+    ///
+    /// 1. **On SHOW** — the box self-focuses when it becomes visible, gated on nothing else holding
+    ///    focus. The EditBox's own OnShow vtable override (`0x81c910` slot +0x30, `0x77a750`) fires
+    ///    the Lua handler and then tail-jumps `SetFocus`:
+    ///    `if ([0xcf4dc8] == 0 && (flags & 1)) jmp 0x77e3d0` @`0x77a76d`. The mirror slot +0x34
+    ///    (`0x77a780`) tail-jumps `ClearFocus`, so **hiding an edit box releases the keyboard**.
+    /// 2. **On the first key/char event** while nothing is focused — the self-acquire guard; the box
+    ///    grabs focus and processes that same event.
+    ///
+    /// **This corrects what stood here.** Both this comment and wow-re's own `ui.md`/RF-0082 said
+    /// autoFocus does NOT focus on show, "verified by absence" — a census written over `call` alone,
+    /// which cannot see a tail-`jmp`. A `(call|jmp)` census finds the eleventh site (wow-re
+    /// `editbox-selection-focus-law.md` §6, 2026-08-29, dispatched from benilla's login work). Path 1
+    /// is a real behavioural gap here, not just a stale sentence.
+    ///
+    /// **`false` at construction is OUR value, not a verified one.** The client's construction-time
+    /// bit0 is unrecorded, and every `autoFocus` in the shipped 1.12.1 chain is `="false"` — ten
+    /// opt-outs, no opt-ins — which is the authoring signature of a default that is ON. Out to wow-re;
+    /// until it answers, this default and the missing path 1 are deliberately left alone together,
+    /// because turning path 1 on under a wrong default is what would actually break something.
     pub auto_focus: bool,
     /// `multiLine` (bit1): Enter inserts a newline (rather than firing `OnEnterPressed`) and `\n` is
     /// accepted into the buffer.
@@ -229,7 +248,9 @@ impl Default for EditBoxState {
             cursor: 0,
             sel_start: 0,
             sel_end: 0,
-            auto_focus: false,
+            // `flags = 1` at construction (`0x779a29`/`0x779a2e`): bit0 (autoFocus) SET, every
+            // other flag clear. A box that says nothing self-focuses when shown.
+            auto_focus: true,
             multi_line: false,
             numeric: false,
             password: false,
@@ -842,8 +863,9 @@ impl EditBoxState {
         self.collapse();
     }
 
-    /// Collapse the selection onto the caret.
-    fn collapse(&mut self) {
+    /// Collapse the selection onto the caret — the client's own `0x77ccf0` (RF-0082 §4), which
+    /// every delete path runs and which a screen losing the keyboard runs on the box it is leaving.
+    pub fn collapse(&mut self) {
         self.sel_start = self.cursor;
         self.sel_end = self.cursor;
     }