diff --git a/lib/followOns.mjs b/lib/followOns.mjs
index 25d2d46..6501c40 100644
--- a/lib/followOns.mjs
+++ b/lib/followOns.mjs
@@ -241,9 +241,18 @@ export function buildFollowOns(ledger, { maxChips = 6, countEstimates = [] } = {
     // ask chips from the term's real available-data queries (largest first).
     // Keep anything that is not an exact zero: a -1 means the total is not known
     // exactly, never that the data is absent.
-    const queries = (t.digest?.queries || []).filter(q =>
-      askPrompt(q, label) && !(countKindOf(q) === 'exact' && !(q.count > 0)) &&
-      !ranThisTurn.has(`${t.id}::${String(q.query_type).toLowerCase()}`))
+    const offerable = (t.digest?.queries || []).filter(q =>
+      askPrompt(q, label) && !(countKindOf(q) === 'exact' && !(q.count > 0)))
+    const unrun = offerable.filter(q => !ranThisTurn.has(`${t.id}::${String(q.query_type).toLowerCase()}`))
+    // Suppressing what the answer was built from is right until it is all of it.
+    // The olfactory system offers exactly two queries, PartsOf and
+    // NeuronsPartHere; when the absence check runs both — about one welcome-screen
+    // answer in three — every chip was suppressed and the reader was left an
+    // answer with nothing to click. A query the prose summarised is still worth
+    // offering, because the chip opens the rows themselves; only offering it
+    // ALONGSIDE an unasked one is worse. So: the unrun queries where there are
+    // any, and otherwise the ones that ran.
+    const queries = unrun.length ? unrun : offerable
     // Largest first — the count is VFB's own statement of how much data is
     // behind the offer, and my phrasing quality is not a reason to overrule it.
     // Ties go to a type this file can phrase exactly.
diff --git a/tests/unit/followOns.test.mjs b/tests/unit/followOns.test.mjs
index 8e1ae60..115d9e7 100644
--- a/tests/unit/followOns.test.mjs
+++ b/tests/unit/followOns.test.mjs
@@ -276,6 +276,32 @@ test('suppression is per term, not per query type', () => {
     'the lobula was never asked about — its chip must survive')
 })
 
+test('when the answer ran EVERY offerable query, the chips come back rather than vanish', () => {
+  // The olfactory system offers exactly two: PartsOf and NeuronsPartHere. When
+  // the absence check runs both — about one welcome-screen answer in three — the
+  // reader was left an answer with nothing at all to click (battery WS3).
+  const OLFACTORY = {
+    id: 'FBbt_00007688',
+    label: 'olfactory system',
+    digest: {
+      name: 'olfactory system',
+      queries: [
+        { query_type: 'NeuronsPartHere', label: 'Neurons with some part here', count: 315 },
+        { query_type: 'PartsOf', label: 'Parts', count: 368 }
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+  const ran = qt => ({ id: 's', tool: 'vfb_run_query', args: { id: 'FBbt_00007688', query_type: qt }, status: 'satisfied' })
+  const both = buildFollowOns({ terms: { 'olfactory system': OLFACTORY }, plan: [ran('NeuronsPartHere'), ran('PartsOf')] })
+    .chips.filter(c => c.kind === 'ask')
+  assert.deepEqual(both.map(c => c.query_type), ['PartsOf', 'NeuronsPartHere'], 'largest first, as usual')
+  assert.ok(both.every(c => c.id === 'FBbt_00007688'), 'and still addressed')
+  // One of the two run is still ordinary suppression: the unasked one wins alone.
+  const one = buildFollowOns({ terms: { 'olfactory system': OLFACTORY }, plan: [ran('PartsOf')] })
+    .chips.filter(c => c.kind === 'ask')
+  assert.deepEqual(one.map(c => c.query_type), ['NeuronsPartHere'])
+})
+
 test('a planned query with no id suppresses nothing', () => {
   // `::type` steps exist (a planner step naming a query with no target). They must
   // not mute a chip for a term they may not even be about.