diff --git a/include/kpn/pool_node.hpp b/include/kpn/pool_node.hpp
index 042a35d..7c9f73c 100644
--- a/include/kpn/pool_node.hpp
+++ b/include/kpn/pool_node.hpp
@@ -530,7 +530,15 @@ private:
             push_one_out<Is>(std::get<Is>(std::move(result))),
           all = all && pending_done_[Is]), ...);
         if (all) { pending_.reset(); pending_done_.fill(false); }
-        else       pending_ = std::move(result);
+        // The retry path calls this as push_outputs(std::move(*pending_), …), so
+        // on that path `result` *is* the parked tuple. Assigning it to itself is
+        // a self-move-assignment, which for std::tuple is elementwise — and
+        // libstdc++'s std::vector does not guard against it: it swaps its data
+        // into a temporary and leaves the vector empty. A value that failed to
+        // push twice would therefore be delivered with its payload silently
+        // erased, which downstream reads as a legitimately empty result rather
+        // than as a loss. Only store when it is not already stored.
+        else if (!pending_ || &result != &*pending_) pending_ = std::move(result);
     }
 
     /// Returns false when the ring was full and the value was NOT taken; the
@@ -1012,7 +1020,15 @@ private:
             push_one_out<Is>(std::get<Is>(std::move(result))),
           all = all && pending_done_[Is]), ...);
         if (all) { pending_.reset(); pending_done_.fill(false); }
-        else       pending_ = std::move(result);
+        // The retry path calls this as push_outputs(std::move(*pending_), …), so
+        // on that path `result` *is* the parked tuple. Assigning it to itself is
+        // a self-move-assignment, which for std::tuple is elementwise — and
+        // libstdc++'s std::vector does not guard against it: it swaps its data
+        // into a temporary and leaves the vector empty. A value that failed to
+        // push twice would therefore be delivered with its payload silently
+        // erased, which downstream reads as a legitimately empty result rather
+        // than as a loss. Only store when it is not already stored.
+        else if (!pending_ || &result != &*pending_) pending_ = std::move(result);
     }
     /// Returns false when the ring was full and the value was NOT taken; the
     /// caller must keep it and retry after the channel signals space.
diff --git a/tests/test_pool_node.cpp b/tests/test_pool_node.cpp
index a5b3f90..8902bae 100644
--- a/tests/test_pool_node.cpp
+++ b/tests/test_pool_node.cpp
@@ -524,3 +524,81 @@ TEST_CASE("node snapshot fields line up with the values nodes supply",
     CHECK_FALSE(snap.queued);
     CHECK_FALSE(snap.wake_pending);
 }
+
+// Regression: a value parked twice must keep its payload.
+//
+// push_outputs ends with
+//
+//     else pending_ = std::move(result);
+//
+// and the retry path calls it as push_outputs(std::move(*pending_), …), so on
+// that path `result` is the parked tuple itself. The assignment was therefore a
+// self-move-assignment. std::tuple's is elementwise, and libstdc++'s
+// std::vector does not guard against self-move: it swaps its data into a
+// temporary and leaves the vector empty. So the first park was clean (the
+// argument is a local temporary) and the second erased the payload.
+//
+// The value was still delivered, still in order, still counted — just empty.
+// Downstream cannot distinguish that from a frame on which the node genuinely
+// found nothing, which is why it never surfaced as an error: in
+// scene-actor-extraction it reads as "no faces in this frame" and the run
+// completes with a quietly wrong answer.
+//
+// Reaching it needs *two* outputs. With one, the only thing that resubmits a
+// parked node is that output's own space callback, which by definition fires
+// when there is room — so the retry always succeeds and never reassigns. With
+// two, output A draining resubmits the node while output B is still full: the
+// retry skips A (already delivered, tracked in pending_done_) and fails on B,
+// and that is the reassignment that eats B's payload.
+//
+// Driven through raw channels rather than consumer nodes so each step is
+// forced rather than raced: B is pre-filled and stays full for exactly as long
+// as the test wants it to.
+namespace {
+
+struct TwoPayloads {
+    static constexpr std::string_view label() { return "two_payloads"; }
+    std::tuple<std::vector<int>, std::vector<int>> operator()() {
+        return {std::vector<int>(4, 1), std::vector<int>(4, 2)};
+    }
+};
+
+}  // namespace
+
+TEST_CASE("a twice-parked value keeps its payload", "[pool_node][backpressure]") {
+    auto pool = std::make_shared<ThreadPool>(2);
+    pool->start();
+
+    TwoPayloads fn;
+    auto node = make_pool_node(fn, pool);
+
+    // Both capacity 1. A must be *full* for its pop to signal space at all —
+    // Channel fires the space callback only on the full->not-full edge, so a
+    // roomy A would never resubmit the node and the retry would never happen.
+    Channel<std::vector<int>> out_a(1), out_b(1);
+    node.set_output_channel<0>(&out_a);
+    node.set_output_channel<1>(&out_b);
+
+    // B is full before the node ever runs, so the very first firing parks.
+    out_b.push(std::vector<int>(4, 99));
+
+    node.start();
+    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(50));
+
+    // Draining A resubmits the node while B is still full: this is the retry
+    // that reassigned the tuple to itself.
+    (void)out_a.pop();
+    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(50));
+
+    // Now let B through and collect what the node had been holding for it.
+    (void)out_b.pop();                       // the pre-fill
+    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(50));
+    std::vector<int> parked = out_b.pop();   // the value parked across two tries
+
+    node.stop();
+    pool->stop();
+
+    INFO("parked payload size " << parked.size());
+    CHECK(parked.size() == 4);
+    if (parked.size() == 4) CHECK(parked[0] == 2);
+}