diff --git a/platform/internal/pgstore/books.go b/platform/internal/pgstore/books.go
index 6eacbcf0..6a05a34f 100644
--- a/platform/internal/pgstore/books.go
+++ b/platform/internal/pgstore/books.go
@@ -816,7 +816,8 @@ type Run struct {
 	OrderedChapters int
 	// DeliveredChapters is NIL for a run whose order does not close whole chapters: such a run has
 	// delivered no CHAPTER, and reporting `0` would read as «nothing happened» rather than as «this
-	// is not the unit this run is measured in». DeliveredUnits carries its progress instead.
+	// is not the unit this run is measured in». Progress carries what it HAS done instead, and for
+	// such a run its `done`/`total` are counted in units rather than chapters.
 	DeliveredChapters *int
 	// BondFunded is whether this run's hold has room for the book-wide consistency pass on top of
 	// what it bought. It is the order form's promise, kept where it can still be read after the
diff --git a/platform/internal/pgstore/price_test.go b/platform/internal/pgstore/price_test.go
index 2970701a..42516d29 100644
--- a/platform/internal/pgstore/price_test.go
+++ b/platform/internal/pgstore/price_test.go
@@ -194,3 +194,83 @@ func TestTheEnginesCharacterCountReachesTheLibraryRowBesideItsAccuracy(t *testin
 		t.Errorf("the cut's provenance did not land: %q", after.Structure)
 	}
 }
+
+// ⛔ THE HONEST CHARACTER COUNT SURVIVES A PRICE THIS BUILD COULD NOT READ, and it did not until an
+// audit asked. `source_chars` was written only when the whole projection passed its witness — so a
+// manifest that named the text perfectly and failed on a MONEY key cost the screen its character
+// count too, and «Знаков» fell back to the intake's approximation, which for an EPUB counts the runes
+// of a ZIP archive. The two facts are independent: one is about the text, the other about money.
+//
+// Mutation caught: writing `source_chars` off `in.Price` again.
+func TestTheCharacterCountSurvivesAPriceThisBuildCouldNotRead(t *testing.T) {
+	s, ctx := testDB(t)
+	book := readingBook(t, s, ctx, "u1")
+	in := priced()
+	in.Price = nil        // the money did not arrive…
+	in.SourceChars = 3000 // …and the engine's count of the text did
+	if err := s.SaveStructure(ctx, book, in); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	got, _, err := s.GetBook(ctx, "u1", book)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got.SourceChars == nil || *got.SourceChars != 3000 {
+		t.Fatalf("the engine's rune count was discarded with the price: %v", got.SourceChars)
+	}
+	// …and the book is still refused for SALE, which is the other half: the two facts are independent
+	// in both directions.
+	order, err := s.ReadBookForOrder(ctx, "u1", book)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if order.Priced {
+		t.Error("a book whose price did not arrive reads as priced")
+	}
+}
+
+// ⛔ WORK DELIVERED BEYOND THE ORDER'S BOUNDARY MUST NOT CANCEL WORK STILL OWED INSIDE IT. The
+// allowance handed to the engine is «ordered minus delivered», and counting the delivered book-WIDE
+// while counting the ordered only up to the boundary makes the two describe different sets: a run
+// ordered through chapter 2 whose chapters 1 and 3 came back delivered fell to its floor of one unit
+// and half-delivered what was bought. It costs no money — settlement is by fact — and it breaks «you
+// bought N», which is the promise this pack exists to make true.
+//
+// Mutation caught: `deliveredWithinOrder` counting the book instead of the order.
+func TestDeliveryBeyondTheOrderDoesNotCancelWorkOwedInsideIt(t *testing.T) {
+	s, ctx := testDB(t)
+	book := readingBook(t, s, ctx, "u1")
+	if err := s.SaveStructure(ctx, book, priced()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// The order runs through chapter ONE (two units). Chapter TWO — beyond it — comes back delivered.
+	var c1 string
+	if err := s.pool.QueryRow(ctx,
+		`select id from chapters where book_id = $1 and number = 1`, book).Scan(&c1); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := s.pool.Exec(ctx, `
+		update books set ordered_at = now(), ordered_through_chapter_id = $2,
+		                 ordered_through_chapter_number = 1 where id = $1`, book, c1); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := s.pool.Exec(ctx, `
+		insert into unit_resolutions (book_id, chapter, unit, wave, shipped, flagged, at)
+		values ($1, 2, 0, 'edit', true, false, now())`, book); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var ordered, delivered int
+	var resolved bool
+	if err := s.pool.QueryRow(ctx, `
+		select `+orderedUnits+`, `+orderResolved+`, `+deliveredWithinOrder+`
+		  from books b where b.id = $1`, book).Scan(&ordered, &resolved, &delivered); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if !resolved || ordered != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("the order through chapter one resolves to %d units (resolved %v), want 2", ordered, resolved)
+	}
+	if delivered != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("a chapter delivered BEYOND the order counted as %d units of it: the allowance would "+
+			"fall to its floor and half-deliver what was bought", delivered)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/platform/internal/pgstore/readmodel.go b/platform/internal/pgstore/readmodel.go
index 1fbba7d7..a54c323a 100644
--- a/platform/internal/pgstore/readmodel.go
+++ b/platform/internal/pgstore/readmodel.go
@@ -81,6 +81,15 @@ type Structure struct {
 	// engine did not say — a manifest older than the landing — and stored as such: the decision it
 	// feeds (ingest.ChapterOrdersOffered) treats what it does not know as untrusted.
 	Structure string
+	// SourceChars is the engine's count of the book's ingested text in runes.
+	//
+	// ⛔ CARRIED APART FROM Price, AND THAT IS THE POINT. It is a property of the CUT, not of the
+	// money: a manifest can name the text honestly and still fail the price witness (a renamed money
+	// key, a chapter that lost its bill). Read off `Price`, such a book lost its honest character
+	// count too and fell back to the intake's approximation — a number that for an EPUB counts the
+	// runes of a ZIP archive — for a reason that has nothing to do with counting. Zero means the
+	// engine did not say.
+	SourceChars int64
 }
 
 // StructureChapter is one chapter and its pairs, in reading order.
@@ -161,11 +170,17 @@ func (s *Store) SaveStructure(ctx context.Context, bookID string, in Structure)
 		// Nulls are written through when the book is not priced. A stale projection kept beside a fresh
 		// tree would sell yesterday's book; an absent one refuses the sale, which is the honest half.
 		var expected, bookOnce, stepMax *int64
-		var sourceChars *int64
 		if in.Price != nil {
 			e, b, sm := int64(in.Price.ExpectedUSD), int64(in.Price.BookOnceUSD), int64(in.Price.StepMaxUSD)
-			sc := in.Price.SourceChars
-			expected, bookOnce, stepMax, sourceChars = &e, &b, &sm, &sc
+			expected, bookOnce, stepMax = &e, &b, &sm
+		}
+		// ⚠ INDEPENDENT OF THE PRICE — see Structure.SourceChars. A book the engine could not price is
+		// still a book whose text the engine counted, and the screen's «Знаков» has no business
+		// falling back to the intake's approximation because a MONEY key was renamed.
+		var sourceChars *int64
+		if in.SourceChars > 0 {
+			sc := in.SourceChars
+			sourceChars = &sc
 		}
 		var structureWord *string
 		if in.Structure != "" {
@@ -632,9 +647,12 @@ const (
 	// top for the same reason the bar is: free and carried units ride outside the grant (volume.go),
 	// so a run can finish more than it was sold, and a figure above what was bought would read as an
 	// overdelivery rather than as the rounding it is. Zero for a re-pass, which buys no chapters.
-	// ⚠ AND WHAT SUCH A RUN HAS DELIVERED IS COUNTED IN UNITS TOO — reported to the client as
-	// `delivered_units` beside a null `delivered_chapters`, because a run that bought a prefix of a
-	// chapter has delivered no CHAPTER and saying «0» would read as «nothing happened».
+	// ⚠ NULL — NOT ZERO — FOR A UNIT-SHAPED ORDER, and there is no second figure beside it. A run
+	// that bought a prefix of a chapter has delivered no CHAPTER, and «0» would read as «nothing
+	// happened» when work was done and paid for. What such a run has delivered is carried by the
+	// BAR instead, whose `done`/`total` are counted in units for exactly this run (see runDone) —
+	// so the two figures a client gets are a null chapter count and a unit-shaped fraction, and
+	// nothing on the wire is called `delivered_units`.
 	runDelivered = `(case when r.ordered_units is not null then null
 	              when r.ceiling_chapters = 0 then 0
 	              else least(greatest((case when ` + editWave + ` then ` + editChapters + ` - r.chapters_before
diff --git a/platform/internal/readmodel/readmodel.go b/platform/internal/readmodel/readmodel.go
index fef6b887..448495f6 100644
--- a/platform/internal/readmodel/readmodel.go
+++ b/platform/internal/readmodel/readmodel.go
@@ -316,7 +316,10 @@ func (s *Service) refreshStructure(ctx context.Context, bookID, workdir string,
 	// the old rows are deleted rather than left alone and the text is gone for good.
 	in := pgstore.Structure{ManifestKey: manifest.Key, TextRead: textErr == nil,
 		Structure: manifest.Structure,
-		Chapters:  make([]pgstore.StructureChapter, 0, len(manifest.Chapters))}
+		// The engine's own rune count, carried whether or not the book could be PRICED: it is a fact
+		// about the text, and the price witness is about money (pgstore.Structure.SourceChars).
+		SourceChars: manifestSourceChars(manifest),
+		Chapters:    make([]pgstore.StructureChapter, 0, len(manifest.Chapters))}
 	// ⚠ ALL OR NOTHING, and the decision is Priced's rather than this loop's. A projection is written
 	// only when the whole of it was read — the book figure, a price on every chapter, and the two
 	// agreeing — because the half-read shape is the dangerous one: a `step_max_usd` that decoded as
@@ -380,3 +383,15 @@ func (s *Service) refreshBank(ctx context.Context, bookID, bankExport string) er
 	}
 	return s.Store.SaveBank(ctx, bookID, bank.Terms)
 }
+
+// manifestSourceChars is the book's ingested text in runes as the engine counted it, or 0.
+//
+// It reads the figure off the price block because that is where the engine publishes it — but it
+// deliberately does NOT ask whether the projection as a whole was readable. A renamed money key must
+// not cost the screen its honest character count.
+func manifestSourceChars(m ingest.Manifest) int64 {
+	if m.Price == nil {
+		return 0
+	}
+	return m.Price.SourceChars
+}
diff --git a/platform/internal/runs/order_test.go b/platform/internal/runs/order_test.go
index 12301ec7..7b281dc4 100644
--- a/platform/internal/runs/order_test.go
+++ b/platform/internal/runs/order_test.go
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ func TestAWholeBookOrderCarriesNoVolumeBound(t *testing.T) {
 // respawned after a restart would be handed its whole order a second time and the promise «you
 // bought N units» would stop being about N.
 //
-// Mutation caught: maxUnitsFor ignoring DeliveredUnits.
+// Mutation caught: maxUnitsFor ignoring SpawnOrder.Delivered.
 func TestTheVolumeAllowanceIsWhatIsLeftOfTheOrderAtEverySpawn(t *testing.T) {
 	f := newFixture(t, "10", 500)
 	run, err := f.svc.Start(f.ctx, StartRequest{UserID: "u1", BookID: f.bookID(t), Chapters: order(10)})