diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/mod.rs
index c7ae8d39..792d7e55 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/mod.rs
@@ -847,6 +847,9 @@ fn resize_pane_targets(
     sizes: Res<PaneBakeSizes>,
     mut booths: ResMut<Booths>,
     mut images: ResMut<Assets<Image>>,
+    // The last `(aspect, want, have)` logged per slot, so `WOW_BOOTH_LOG` prints a line per
+    // change rather than one a frame.
+    mut geom: Local<HashMap<&'static str, (u32, u32, u32)>>,
 ) {
     for slot in UNIT_PANE_SLOTS {
         // Only a pane that is on screen may size its bake.
@@ -859,6 +862,19 @@ fn resize_pane_targets(
         let have = images
             .get(&booth.target)
             .map(|image| image.texture_descriptor.size.width);
+        // The three numbers that decide whether a pane is drawn un-stretched: the aspect the
+        // camera is framed through, the square bake it renders into, and the square the UI
+        // actually samples. A model that looks stretched or over-zoomed in a pane whose content
+        // and framing both check out is these disagreeing.
+        if booth_log() {
+            let seen = (booth.aspect.to_bits(), want, have.unwrap_or(0));
+            if geom.insert(slot, seen) != Some(seen) {
+                eprintln!(
+                    "[booth] pane geom slot={slot} aspect={:.4} want={want} have={have:?}",
+                    booth.aspect,
+                );
+            }
+        }
         if have.is_none_or(|have| have == want) {
             continue;
         }
@@ -2425,7 +2441,8 @@ fn stage_pane_look(
         booth.staged = Some((pane, bake.revision));
         if booth_log() {
             eprintln!(
-                "[booth] pane stage slot={slot} pane={pane:?} rev={} display={} parts={}",
+                "[booth] pane stage slot={slot} pane={pane:?} rev={} display={} parts={} \
+                 aspect={aspect:.4}",
                 bake.revision,
                 bake.display_id,
                 bake.parts.len(),
@@ -2550,6 +2567,17 @@ fn sync_body_booth(
     let Some(booth) = booths.0.get_mut(slot) else {
         return;
     };
+    // Reaching the mirror means this booth is no longer holding a pane's own bake, so the stage
+    // latch has to say so. It is the mirror image of what [`stage_pane_look`] does on the way in,
+    // where staging clears `snap`/`baked`.
+    //
+    // Leaving it set is a stale-latch bug with a delay fuse: a pane's bake lives only as long as
+    // its room ([`crate::entities::attach::build_pane_previews`]) and every pane numbers its own
+    // bakes **from 1**, so a pane whose window closes and reopens comes back at revision 1 — and
+    // if the booth still claimed `(that pane, 1)` from its previous life, `needs_restage` read
+    // "already current" and the window reopened showing whatever the mirror had left in the
+    // booth. Clearing here can only ever cost one extra restage, which is the safe direction.
+    booth.staged = None;
     // Latch the pane's aspect while it is drawn.
     let aspect = panes.0.get(slot).copied().unwrap_or(booth.aspect);
     // The show edge (`0x505d00`): `BoothPanes` publishes a slot exactly while its pane is drawn.
@@ -3718,6 +3746,24 @@ mod stage_latch_tests {
         let (pane, _) = two_panes();
         assert!(needs_restage(None, pane, 1, 1.0, 1.0));
     }
+
+    /// The second half of the handover, and the reason [`super::sync_body_booth`] clears the
+    /// latch: a pane's bake lives only as long as its room, and every pane numbers its bakes from
+    /// 1. A window that closes and reopens brings the *same* pane back at revision 1, so a latch
+    /// still holding that pane's revision 1 from its previous life reads as "already current"
+    /// while the booth actually holds whatever the mirror left in it. Cleared, it is fresh again.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_same_pane_restages_after_the_mirror_clears_the_latch() {
+        let (pane, _) = two_panes();
+        assert!(
+            !needs_restage(Some((pane, 1)), pane, 1, 1.0, 1.0),
+            "left set, a reopened window's first revision looks current — the bug"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            needs_restage(None, pane, 1, 1.0, 1.0),
+            "cleared on the way through the mirror, the same pane and revision restage"
+        );
+    }
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]