diff --git a/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/SessionScreen.kt b/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/SessionScreen.kt
index fb79953..5060c46 100644
--- a/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/SessionScreen.kt
+++ b/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/SessionScreen.kt
@@ -212,9 +212,14 @@ private fun runIdFor(items: List<TranscriptItem>, id: String): String =
     (items.lastOrNull() as? TranscriptItem.ToolRun)?.runId ?: id
 
 /**
- * Puts a page of older items in front of the ones already loaded, healing any tool call the page
+ * Puts a page of older items in front of the ones already loaded, healing whatever the page
  * boundary cut in two.
  *
+ * Two things straddle a boundary: a tool call separated from its result, and a message separated
+ * from the rest of itself. Both were one thing before the transcript was cut into pages, and both
+ * have to be one thing again -- a reply drawn as two messages is the same defect as a call drawn
+ * twice, arriving from the same cause.
+ *
  * A boundary lands wherever it lands, and roughly half the time that is between a call and its
  * result. The newer page then holds a `ToolEnd` whose start it never saw, which [foldEvent] draws
  * as a row of its own -- correctly, because a call that renders as nothing is indistinguishable
@@ -230,16 +235,17 @@ private fun runIdFor(items: List<TranscriptItem>, id: String): String =
  * that loses nothing.
  */
 fun joinPages(earlier: List<TranscriptItem>, later: List<TranscriptItem>): List<TranscriptItem> {
+    val (older, newer) = healSplitMessage(earlier, later)
     val startedEarlier =
-        earlier.filterIsInstance<TranscriptItem.ToolRun>().mapTo(mutableSetOf()) { it.id }
-    if (startedEarlier.isEmpty()) return earlier + later
+        older.filterIsInstance<TranscriptItem.ToolRun>().mapTo(mutableSetOf()) { it.id }
+    if (startedEarlier.isEmpty()) return older + newer
     val endedLater =
-        later
+        newer
             .filterIsInstance<TranscriptItem.ToolRun>()
             .associateBy { it.id }
             .filterKeys { it in startedEarlier }
-    if (endedLater.isEmpty()) return earlier + later
-    val healed = earlier.map { row ->
+    if (endedLater.isEmpty()) return older + newer
+    val healed = older.map { row ->
         val half = (row as? TranscriptItem.ToolRun)?.let { endedLater[it.id] }
         if (row is TranscriptItem.ToolRun && half != null) {
             row.copy(
@@ -254,10 +260,35 @@ fun joinPages(earlier: List<TranscriptItem>, later: List<TranscriptItem>): List<
             row
         }
     }
-    val kept = later.filterNot { it is TranscriptItem.ToolRun && it.id in endedLater }
+    val kept = newer.filterNot { it is TranscriptItem.ToolRun && it.id in endedLater }
     return adoptRun(healed, kept) + kept
 }
 
+/**
+ * Rejoins a message the page boundary cut, and hands back the two pages to concatenate.
+ *
+ * [foldEvent] never leaves two assistant messages next to each other inside one page -- deltas
+ * accumulate into the message before them -- so two meeting at a join are always the two halves of
+ * one reply, and leaving them apart drew a single answer as two, with a paragraph break through the
+ * middle of a sentence.
+ *
+ * The newer half keeps its identity, for the reason [adoptRun] gives: it is the row already on
+ * screen, and renaming that is how the list loses its anchor. It grows by what the older half
+ * brings, which is safe here and nowhere else -- the join is at the oldest end of what is loaded,
+ * so the growth extends off the top of the screen, away from the row the list anchors to.
+ */
+private fun healSplitMessage(
+    earlier: List<TranscriptItem>,
+    later: List<TranscriptItem>,
+): Pair<List<TranscriptItem>, List<TranscriptItem>> {
+    val head = earlier.lastOrNull()
+    val tail = later.firstOrNull()
+    if (head !is TranscriptItem.AssistantMsg || tail !is TranscriptItem.AssistantMsg) {
+        return earlier to later
+    }
+    return earlier.dropLast(1) to (listOf(tail.copy(text = head.text + tail.text)) + later.drop(1))
+}
+
 /**
  * Hands the older calls at the join the name of the run they are joining.
  *