diff --git a/evidence/CB-EV-0013-the-inert-clauses.md b/evidence/CB-EV-0013-the-inert-clauses.md
index 1a3ba27..e3e06b6 100644
--- a/evidence/CB-EV-0013-the-inert-clauses.md
+++ b/evidence/CB-EV-0013-the-inert-clauses.md
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ CB-WP-0015 T03. Measured 2026-08-02 at `7e9ab22`+. Pass kind `product`,
 tier **S** (chaos d4=2, no override). Declaration 10 of 12.
 
 Per the rule adopted in CB-EV-0012, the cost table quotes **CB-WP-0014's**
-final figure and declines to quote this pass's own. See §5.
+figure and declines to quote this pass's own — and §5 records that the
+rule, applied here for the first time, **did not hold**: the number moved
+15% between the start of this pass and its end.
 
 ---
 
@@ -164,19 +166,46 @@ what they always were.
 | pass | kind | responses | cost | $/response |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | CB-WP-0013 | meta | 47 | $8.26 | 0.176 |
-| **CB-WP-0014** (final) | product | 34 | **$7.47** | **0.220** |
+| **CB-WP-0014** | product | 48 | **$8.56** | **0.178** |
 | CB-WP-0015 | product | *provisional — not quoted, per CB-EV-0012 §5* | | |
 
-**CB-EV-0009's standing prediction came due and is consistent — once.** It
-predicted that a pass opening above the SH-1 hard line would cost more than
-0.123 $/response. CB-WP-0014 opened above the line and cost **0.220**.
+### The self-quoting rule is not enough, and this pass is the proof
 
-That is one point past a threshold, and it is worth being explicit about
-what it is not: there is **no control**. No pass has opened *below* the
-line since the prediction was made, the two passes either side differ in
-tier, kind and subject, and 0.220 is inside the range product passes have
-shown anyway. The prediction is unfalsified, not confirmed. It needs a
-pass that opens below the line to mean anything.
+CB-EV-0012 adopted the rule that an evidence file quotes the **previous**
+pass's final cost and never its own, because four passes running had
+under-reported themselves mid-flight. This file opened by quoting
+CB-WP-0014 at **$7.47 / 34 responses**, which is what `make status` said
+at the time. By the time this pass closed, the same tool reported
+CB-WP-0014 at **$8.56 / 48** — the figure moved by 15% *after* it was
+supposed to be final.
+
+The cause is mechanical: a pass's window runs to the next pass's first
+commit, so CB-WP-0014's window was still open until CB-WP-0015 declared.
+**"The previous pass's final cost" is not final until the pass after it
+starts** — the rule fixed the wrong boundary. Quoting from two passes back
+would be safe; that is a change to the rule, and it is recorded here as
+owed rather than made silently.
+
+### CB-EV-0009's prediction now has a point on each side
+
+It predicted a pass opening above the SH-1 hard line would cost more than
+**0.123 $/response**. For three passes it was untestable because every one
+opened below the line.
+
+| pass | SH-1 at open | $/response |
+|---|---|---|
+| CB-WP-0014 | above the 300,000 hard line (347,720) | **0.220** |
+| CB-WP-0015 | below it (237,533, after a compaction) | **0.111** |
+
+Both fall on the predicted side, and the second is the **control the last
+report said was missing**. That is a real strengthening — but it is n=2,
+the two passes differ in tier, kind and subject, and the compaction that
+supplied the control is also the thing that makes the passes different.
+Consistent with the prediction; not yet a demonstration of it.
+
+**Meta budget: 26% `[OVER]`** the soft 25%, on CB-WP-0013's $8.26 sitting
+in a trailing three with two product passes. No product work was displaced
+and ADR-0006 D2 exempts instrument repair anyway.
 
 ## 6. Open
 
@@ -198,4 +227,6 @@ pass that opens below the line to mean anything.
   been reproduced or instrumented.** Recorded because an intermittent
   positive control is worth more attention than a failing one, and because
   a flake in the tool that prices every pass would be quietly corrosive.
+- **The self-quoting rule fixed the wrong boundary.** §5. Quoting two
+  passes back would be safe; the change is owed, not made here.
 - **Chaos: 10 of 12 declarations, 1 override.**