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@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ resource class, including the billing that tends to outlive it.
 
 ## What it does and why
 
-Deleting is the easy half. The hard half is proving nothing remains, and the
-two failures that matter are both invisible to the delete path itself.
+Deleting is straightforward. Proving that nothing remains is harder, and the two failures that matter are both invisible to the delete path itself.
 
 ### Billing outliving compute
 
@@ -21,8 +20,7 @@ so KillSwitch reports it as a separate critical finding and prints it first.
 A `DELETE` that returns 200 means the API accepted the request. It does not
 mean the resource is gone. A teardown whose only evidence is its own success
 response has verified nothing, so an `absent` state backed only by
-`delete-response` is reported as not assessed. That is the difference
-between terminated and verifiably terminated.
+`delete-response` is reported as not assessed.
 
 KillSwitch never deletes anything. It takes an inventory you enumerated and
 decides whether the removal can be evidenced. There is no network access and