diff --git a/server/src/session/claude.rs b/server/src/session/claude.rs
index a036f2a..138a013 100644
--- a/server/src/session/claude.rs
+++ b/server/src/session/claude.rs
@@ -150,10 +150,22 @@ impl Queue {
     /// Reported rather than dropped. These are messages somebody typed
     /// that never reached the session and never reached the transcript, so
     /// this is the only place they can be mentioned at all.
+    ///
+    /// Each one is also *resolved*, with the same `MessageDropped` that a
+    /// phone tapping the bubble produces. Without it the bubble sat there
+    /// for good: a message drawn as waiting to be read, by a session that
+    /// no longer exists, with the only thing that ever clears it -- the
+    /// `UserMessage` -- exactly what is not coming. The error says what
+    /// happened and the drop is what ends it, which is the same division
+    /// of labour as everywhere else here.
     fn close(&mut self, sink: &EventSink, why: &str) {
         self.closed = true;
         self.running = false;
-        let lost: Vec<String> = self.awaiting.drain(..).map(|(_, text, _)| text).collect();
+        let lost: Vec<(String, String)> = self
+            .awaiting
+            .drain(..)
+            .map(|(id, text, _)| (id, text))
+            .collect();
         if lost.is_empty() {
             return;
         }
@@ -165,9 +177,15 @@ impl Queue {
                 } else {
                     format!("{} queued messages", lost.len())
                 },
-                lost.join(" / ")
+                lost.iter()
+                    .map(|(_, text)| text.as_str())
+                    .collect::<Vec<_>>()
+                    .join(" / ")
             ),
         });
+        for (id, _) in lost {
+            let _ = sink.send(Event::MessageDropped { id });
+        }
     }
 }