diff --git a/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/Session.kt b/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/Session.kt
index 301c4b2..8c4241b 100644
--- a/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/Session.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/Session.kt
@@ -236,9 +236,19 @@ class Session(
     fun sendSticker(peerUserId: Long, pack: String, stickerId: String):
         Conversations.Sent {
         val sent = conversations.sendSticker(peerUserId, pack, stickerId)
-        record(Vault.threadForUser(peerUserId), "", mine = true,
+        val at = System.currentTimeMillis()
+        record(Vault.threadForUser(peerUserId), "", mine = true, at = at,
                sticker = Sticker(pack, stickerId),
                delivery = if (sent.reachedSomeone) Delivery.DELIVERED else Delivery.PENDING)
+        // 🔴 **Queued, like text — because the bubble already promised it.**
+        // A sticker to somebody signed out was marked "Undelivered — will
+        // send" and then never entered the outbox, so the label was a lie for
+        // exactly one content kind. The queue stores the ratchet plaintext,
+        // and a sticker's wire IS its plaintext, so the same replay path
+        // delivers both.
+        if (!sent.reachedSomeone) {
+            enqueue(peerUserId, io.flamenet.e2e.Content.sticker(pack, stickerId), at)
+        }
         return sent
     }
 
@@ -326,6 +336,13 @@ class Session(
      * ⚠️ Which is worth being honest about in the UI: "Sending…" here means
      * "waiting on your phone", not "in flight".
      */
+    /**
+     * ⚠️ `text` is the ratchet PLAINTEXT, not necessarily prose. For a text
+     * message the two are the same string; for a sticker it is the encoded
+     * content envelope. `flushOutbox` replays it through `conversations.send`,
+     * which transmits its argument as the plaintext verbatim — so both kinds
+     * take the same path out.
+     */
     private fun enqueue(peerUserId: Long, text: String, at: Long) {
         val pending = vault.outbox()
         pending.put(JSONObject()
diff --git a/app/src/test/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/OutboxTest.kt b/app/src/test/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/OutboxTest.kt
index 3f2e4ab..51b5378 100644
--- a/app/src/test/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/OutboxTest.kt
+++ b/app/src/test/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/OutboxTest.kt
@@ -179,6 +179,49 @@ class OutboxTest {
         )
     }
 
+    /**
+     * 🔴 The sticker version of the promise, because it was broken separately:
+     * a sticker to somebody signed out was marked "Undelivered — will send"
+     * and then never entered the outbox — the label was a lie for exactly one
+     * content kind. This asserts all three parts: queued, delivered AS A
+     * STICKER once a device exists, and the bubble restated.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun `a sticker to somebody with no device is queued and later delivered as a sticker`() {
+        val session = session()
+        server.enqueue(json("""{"devices":[]}"""))
+        session.sendSticker(peer, "flamenet.core", "wave")
+
+        val thread = session.history(Vault.threadForUser(peer))
+        assertEquals(1, thread.size)
+        assertEquals("wave", thread[0].sticker?.id, "the bubble is a sticker, not text")
+        assertEquals(Session.Delivery.PENDING, thread[0].delivery)
+        assertEquals(1, session.vault.outbox().length(),
+                     "the sticker must be waiting in the outbox")
+
+        // They reinstall.
+        val them = DeviceIdentity.create()
+        val opk = them.generateOneTimePreKeys(1).first()
+        val bundle = them.registrationWire().put(
+            "opk", org.json.JSONObject()
+                .put("id", opk.id)
+                .put("pub", android.util.Base64.encodeToString(
+                    opk.publicKey, android.util.Base64.NO_WRAP)))
+        server.enqueue(json(org.json.JSONObject()
+            .put("devices", org.json.JSONArray().put(bundle)).toString()))
+        server.enqueue(json("""{"ok":true}"""))
+
+        session.flushOutbox()
+
+        assertEquals(0, session.vault.outbox().length())
+        assertEquals(Session.Delivery.DELIVERED,
+                     session.history(Vault.threadForUser(peer))[0].delivery,
+                     "the sticker bubble must stop saying undelivered")
+        assertEquals("wave",
+                     session.history(Vault.threadForUser(peer))[0].sticker?.id,
+                     "restating the delivery must not turn the sticker into text")
+    }
+
     @Test
     fun `a message stamped once is the one that gets restated`() {
         val session = session()