diff --git a/skills/leaf/assets/runtime/chrome-style.js b/skills/leaf/assets/runtime/chrome-style.js
index 7a8f859f2..48407efa9 100644
--- a/skills/leaf/assets/runtime/chrome-style.js
+++ b/skills/leaf/assets/runtime/chrome-style.js
@@ -235,17 +235,26 @@ export function chromeStyle({
      shape and loses the gesture: BAKE takes the role and the tab stop off a standing
      reaction mark and leaves the mark itself, so a hand hung on the class alone
      promises a press no file can answer. It reads the two ways a press is spelled
-     here: the platform's element, and the explicit selectable-offer exception. */
+     here: the platform's element, and the explicit selectable-offer exception.
+
+     The lift under the pointer is the same promise in the other property, and the tones
+     below are that lift wearing a colour, so all of them are spelled the same way. The
+     hand is the only half a gate can see — the copy's offering reading takes the cursor and
+     nothing else — and aria-disabled is no guard in a file either: BAKE strips it with
+     the rest of the aria state, so a decided suggestion's record, which survives on
+     data-lf-said, would light its accept tint under a pointer that can decide nothing. */
   .lf-margin-action:is(button, [role="button"]) { cursor: pointer; }
-  .lf-margin-action:hover:not([aria-disabled="true"]) { background: var(--chip); }
+  .lf-margin-action:is(button, [role="button"]):hover:not([aria-disabled="true"]) {
+    background: var(--chip);
+  }
   .lf-margin-action:is(:focus-visible, .lf-focus-visible) {
     outline: var(--here-ring); --lf-here-ring: margin-action; outline-offset: 1px;
   }
   .lf-margin-action[aria-disabled="true"] { cursor: default; }
-  .lf-margin-action[data-lf-tone="positive"]:hover:not([aria-disabled="true"]) {
+  .lf-margin-action[data-lf-tone="positive"]:is(button, [role="button"]):hover:not([aria-disabled="true"]) {
     border-color: var(--ok); color: var(--ok-ink); background: var(--ok-tint);
   }
-  .lf-margin-action[data-lf-tone="negative"]:hover:not([aria-disabled="true"]) {
+  .lf-margin-action[data-lf-tone="negative"]:is(button, [role="button"]):hover:not([aria-disabled="true"]) {
     border-color: var(--danger); color: var(--danger-ink); background: var(--danger-tint);
   }
   .lf-margin-action[data-lf-tone="positive"][aria-disabled="true"] {
@@ -257,7 +266,7 @@ export function chromeStyle({
   .lf-margin-action[data-lf-tone="primary"] {
     border-color: var(--accent); background: var(--accent); color: var(--paper);
   }
-  .lf-margin-action[data-lf-tone="primary"]:hover:not([aria-disabled="true"]) {
+  .lf-margin-action[data-lf-tone="primary"]:is(button, [role="button"]):hover:not([aria-disabled="true"]) {
     filter: brightness(.92); background: var(--accent);
   }
   .lf-margin-action.lf-react[aria-pressed="true"] {
diff --git a/tests/test_render_reactions.py b/tests/test_render_reactions.py
index 23b3befda..4185e7a41 100644
--- a/tests/test_render_reactions.py
+++ b/tests/test_render_reactions.py
@@ -1223,5 +1223,15 @@ def test_a_copy_keeps_a_standing_reaction_as_a_mark_and_drops_the_press(
     assert copy == {"washed": ["every edit"], "glyph": [["−", "img", "cut", None]]}, (
         copy
     )
+    # The other half of the same promise, and the half no gate can see: the copy's
+    # `offering` reads the cursor and nothing else, so paint that arrives with the
+    # pointer rather than standing on the page is invisible to it. A receipt in a file
+    # that lifts under the pointer says a press is there to take.
+    mark = page.locator(
+        '.lf-margin-item[data-lf-margin-for="how-store"] .lf-react-mark'
+    )
+    resting = mark.evaluate("el => getComputedStyle(el).backgroundColor")
+    mark.hover()
+    assert mark.evaluate("el => getComputedStyle(el).backgroundColor") == resting
     assert errors == []
     page.close()