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@@ -3591,6 +3591,13 @@ plan," D's own intro) — nothing here is scoped into implementable items yet.
   Artemis) are permanently exempt from `COOL` regardless of idle state; non-pinned user VMs
   are exempt from nothing. No exception case (e.g. a user VM temporarily pinned while
   actively attached) — ruled out, confirmed as-is.
+- **`EXPIRE`/D.2 relationship, resolved 2026-09-02**: no actual conflict between D.2 and this
+  section — D.2 was scoped to *user* sessions (thumbdrive attach/detach), written before
+  Hera/Hermes/Artemis were framed as having their own persistent sessions. **D.2 is a special
+  case of H.1, fully subsumed**: D.2 describes exactly how the non-pinned branch behaves
+  (detach triggers `COOL`), matching the mapping above. Pinned sessions simply have no
+  D.2-style "ending" at all — permanent by construction, the question D.2 was answering
+  doesn't apply to them.
 
 ### H.2 — Session struct shape
 
@@ -3804,9 +3811,9 @@ Explicitly open items surfaced during this capture pass, none decided yet:
 7. **CLOSED 2026-09-02 — private-topic traffic gating (H.8).** Confirmed ungated — `MSG-SEND`
    has no ACL check today; trust is established once at the handshake, nothing re-checks
    permission afterward. The message card's scope is now final: it gates `CH-REQUEST` alone.
-8. **The `EXPIRE`/D.2 relationship.** D.2 already established "session ending = VM detach,
-   reuse `COOL`" — H.1's pinned/non-pinned framing should be read as refining that, not
-   replacing it, but the two have not been explicitly reconciled in one pass.
+8. **CLOSED 2026-09-02 — the `EXPIRE`/D.2 relationship.** No conflict — D.2 is a special case
+   of H.1, fully subsumed (D.2 describes the non-pinned branch specifically; pinned sessions
+   have no D.2-style "ending" at all).
 9. **Every other card beyond the four named** (VM, word, block, message) — the model list is
    confirmed as the *named-so-far* set, not stated as closed/exhaustive.
 10. **No implementation has started.** Every item above, and every card definition in