diff --git a/resources/css/components/fab-menu-item.css b/resources/css/components/fab-menu-item.css
index 5be3028d..317414f5 100644
--- a/resources/css/components/fab-menu-item.css
+++ b/resources/css/components/fab-menu-item.css
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * container.
  *
  * The entry is `@starting-style` on the item itself; the exit needs the state to be readable
- * while the popover is on its way out, which `[data-md-fab-menu]:not(:popover-open) > *`
+ * while the popover is on its way out, which `[data-md-fab-menu-popover]:not(:popover-open) > *`
  * (fab-menu.css) drives from the popover's own open state — the popover keeps `display: flex` for
  * the length of its own discrete transition, so the item has somewhere to animate to (ACT-33).
  */
diff --git a/resources/css/components/fab-menu.css b/resources/css/components/fab-menu.css
index 294de5af..e827920d 100644
--- a/resources/css/components/fab-menu.css
+++ b/resources/css/components/fab-menu.css
@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@
  * entry is `@starting-style` on the item itself; the exit needs the state to be readable while the
  * popover is on its way out, which `[data-md-fab-menu-popover]:not(:popover-open) > *` is — the
  * popover keeps `display: flex` for the length of its own discrete transition, so the items have
- * somewhere to animate to (ACT-33). Unlayered would beat an item's own declarations, but nothing
- * here needs to: the item sets no `translate`/`opacity` of its own once it has entered, so this
- * rule, inside the layer, is what always wins while the popover is closed.
+ * somewhere to animate to (ACT-33). The Tailwind-era rule sat outside the layers to beat the
+ * item's utilities; inside the layer it still beats fab-menu-item.css's resting `translate: 0 0`
+ * and `opacity: 1`, on specificity — an attribute and a pseudo-class against the item's one
+ * attribute — whichever order the two files are bundled in.
  */
 
 @layer material.reset, material.tokens, material.base, material.layout, material.components, material.text, material.visibility;
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Components/FabMenuTest.php b/tests/Feature/Components/FabMenuTest.php
index 4c10af04..c17c8123 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Components/FabMenuTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Components/FabMenuTest.php
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ it('opens at the corner asked for, secondary and tertiary in their own colours',
         ]);
 });
 
-it('scrolls the list on a short window, behind the close button, which stays fixed', function () {
+it('sinks the items back while the list closes, from the popover\'s own open state', function () {
     expect(ComponentStylesheet::read('fab-menu')->declarations('[data-md-fab-menu-popover]:not(:popover-open) > *'))->toBe([
         'translate' => '0 var(--md-sys-measurement-space100)',
         'opacity' => '0',