diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/world_focus.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/world_focus.rs
index 4a2c62db..3dcc65af 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/world_focus.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/world_focus.rs
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ pub(super) fn release_post_snap_hold(
     time: Res<Time>,
     mut last_counters: Local<Option<[usize; 6]>>,
     net_cmds: Option<Res<crate::net::NetCommands>>,
+    self_guid: Option<Res<crate::net::SelfGuid>>,
 ) {
     let Some(p) = progress else { return };
     // Residency counts only for the tile under the body. On a mismatch (the teleport's snap frame,
@@ -149,10 +150,28 @@ pub(super) fn release_post_snap_hold(
     // this a character that comes out of a worldport unable to walk is a story, because nothing
     // else in the log says whether the hold is the settle, a lost mover, or a pending reseat.
     if was_settling && !player.settling {
-        info!(
-            "worldport: settle released — WASD held by: {}",
-            player.movement_suppressors()
-        );
+        let held = player.movement_suppressors();
+        info!("worldport: settle released — WASD held by: {held}");
+        // A transfer is a mover change, and the server's revoke belonged to the body on the map we
+        // left: vmangos takes control for the teleport (`SetClientControl(player, 0)`) and does not
+        // promise the restore. Left set, `control_lost` parks the body for the rest of the session,
+        // because nothing else clears it — the worldport arm replaces the pose and the settle
+        // releases, and neither asks. Re-claim our own body here, at the transfer's completion and
+        // with the ack, the way login does; the reference's `SetActiveMover` reset (`wire_in.rs`)
+        // is the same teardown. A possession is left alone: there the lock is the point.
+        if player.control_lost && player.foreign_mover.is_none() {
+            if let (Some(net), Some(guid)) =
+                (net_cmds.as_deref(), self_guid.as_deref().and_then(|g| g.0))
+            {
+                player.control_lost = false;
+                player.reseat = true;
+                super::move_trace::mover_claim("WORLDPORT", guid);
+                let _ = net
+                    .0
+                    .send(crate::net::ClientCommand::SetActiveMover { guid });
+                info!("worldport: re-claimed our own body after the transfer");
+            }
+        }
     }
     // The worldport ack, the reference's post-load `0xDC`, goes at either end of the hold: the
     // server keeps an unacked transfer out of world until logout.