diff --git a/src/core/graph/GraphInterpreter.ts b/src/core/graph/GraphInterpreter.ts
index efd4ce6a..dac9541c 100644
--- a/src/core/graph/GraphInterpreter.ts
+++ b/src/core/graph/GraphInterpreter.ts
@@ -240,17 +240,10 @@ export class GraphInterpreter {
     this.callStack.push(call.behaviorId);
     this.callSites.push(site);
     this.calledBehaviors.add(call.behaviorId);
-    // Fresh states every call, and nothing of the caller's variables or states. What it does to a
-    // local machine therefore dies with the call and is not reported; a `global` machine is the
-    // run's, so moving that one is a move like any other.
-    const inner: NodeContext = {
-      ...ctx,
-      variables,
-      states: {},
-      stateChanged: (machineId, from, to) => {
-        if (machineId in ctx.shared.states) ctx.stateChanged(machineId, from, to);
-      },
-    };
+    // Nothing of the caller's variables, but its local machines: a local machine belongs to the
+    // running instance however deep the call, so what a call sets is still set on the next one,
+    // and the move is heard like one the caller made itself.
+    const inner: NodeContext = { ...ctx, variables };
     try {
       for (const entry of entries) {
         this.trace?.onNode(entry.id);
diff --git a/tests/core/keep-state.test.ts b/tests/core/keep-state.test.ts
index ea01fdaf..8f3be77c 100644
--- a/tests/core/keep-state.test.ts
+++ b/tests/core/keep-state.test.ts
@@ -203,16 +203,17 @@ describe('Keep on a behavior variable (#229)', () => {
     expect([ctx.variables.r0, ctx.variables.r1]).toEqual([2, 2]);
   });
 
-  it('starts a local state machine of the callee over every call, kept variables or not', () => {
+  it('leaves a local state machine with the caller, so a call finds what the last one set', () => {
     const fixture = makeProject();
     const create = new CreateAssetCommand('statemachine', 'Doors');
     fixture.stack.execute(create);
     const open = new AddNodeCommand(create.asset.id, STATE, 0, 0, { [STATE_NAME_PARAM]: 'Open' });
     fixture.stack.execute(open);
     const machine = create.asset.id;
-    // No state yet → "first" and put it in Open; in Open → "open". The kept variable is only
-    // there to show that keeping one does not keep the machine along with it.
+    // No state yet → "first" and put it in Open; in Open → "open". The variable is not kept, which
+    // shows that the machine does not hang on the Keep switch.
     const callee = makeBehavior(fixture, 'Door', ['count']);
+    fixture.stack.execute(new SetVariableKeptCommand(callee.id, 'count', false));
     const edit = graphEditor(fixture, callee);
     const start = edit.addNode(BEHAVIOR_START);
     const branch = edit.addNode('StateBranch', { [MACHINE_PORT]: machine });
@@ -237,9 +238,9 @@ describe('Keep on a behavior variable (#229)', () => {
     const ctx = fakeContext();
     fire(interpreter, 'OnStart', ctx);
     fire(interpreter, 'OnStart', ctx);
-    expect(ctx.logs).toEqual(['first', 'first']);
-    // A local machine of the callee is none of the caller's business either.
-    expect(ctx.states).toEqual({});
+    expect(ctx.logs).toEqual(['first', 'open']);
+    // The state sits in the caller's bag, where the running instance keeps its local machines.
+    expect(ctx.states).toEqual({ [machine]: open.node.id });
   });
 
   it('survives saving and loading, and a name that is not declared is dropped', () => {
diff --git a/tests/core/state-machine.test.ts b/tests/core/state-machine.test.ts
index 01bff98f..b4c6eee1 100644
--- a/tests/core/state-machine.test.ts
+++ b/tests/core/state-machine.test.ts
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ describe('a running state machine', () => {
     expect(started.world.log).toEqual(['open', 'open', 'closed', 'closed']);
   });
 
-  it('starts a called behavior in no state, whatever the caller set', () => {
+  it('lets a called behavior see the state its caller set', () => {
     const f = makeProject();
     const machine = makeMachine(f);
     const inner = makeBehavior(f, 'Inner');
@@ -299,7 +299,8 @@ describe('a running state machine', () => {
     const ctx = fakeContext();
     fire(new GraphInterpreter(outer.graph, graphLookup(f.project)), 'OnStart', ctx);
     expect(ctx.states).toEqual({ [machine.id]: machine.ids[0] });
-    expect(ctx.logs).toEqual([]);
+    // A local machine belongs to the instance, not to the graph that happens to run.
+    expect(ctx.logs).toEqual(['inner saw open']);
   });
 
   it('is driven by name where the machine arrives as a value, and branches through else', () => {
@@ -501,6 +502,45 @@ describe('On state entered and On state exited', () => {
     expect(open).not.toBe('');
   });
 
+  it('hears a move made inside a called behavior, each object in its own state', () => {
+    const f = makeSpriteScene();
+    const machine = makeMachine(f);
+    const [open, closed] = machine.ids as [string, string];
+    f.stack.execute(new SetMachineStartCommand(machine.id, open));
+    // Called every frame: closes the door it finds open, says so once it finds it closed.
+    const step = makeBehavior(f, 'Step');
+    const stepEdit = graphEditor(f, step);
+    const branch = stepEdit.addNode('StateBranch', { [MACHINE_PORT]: machine.id });
+    const set = stepEdit.addNode('SetState', { [MACHINE_PORT]: machine.id });
+    const said = stepEdit.addNode('Log', { message: 'Step: found closed' });
+    stepEdit.wire([
+      [stepEdit.addNode(BEHAVIOR_START), 'exec', branch, 'exec'],
+      [branch, open, set, closed],
+      [branch, closed, said, 'exec'],
+    ]);
+    const { behavior, edit } = watcher(f, machine.id, machine.ids);
+    const call = edit.addNode('RunBehavior', { [BEHAVIOR_PARAM]: step.id });
+    edit.connect(edit.addNode('OnUpdate'), 'exec', call, 'exec');
+    place(f, behavior.id, { x: 0, y: 0 });
+    place(f, behavior.id, { x: 10, y: 0 });
+    const started = startWorld(f, { behaviors: true });
+    started.frame();
+    // The call starts in the instance's start state and its move reaches that instance's events.
+    expect([...started.world.log].sort()).toEqual([
+      'Watcher: entered closed',
+      'Watcher: entered closed',
+      'Watcher: entered open',
+      'Watcher: entered open',
+      'Watcher: exited open',
+      'Watcher: exited open',
+    ]);
+    expect(started.behaviors?.machineStates(machine.id).map((s) => s.state)).toEqual([closed, closed]);
+    started.world.log.length = 0;
+    started.frame();
+    // The next call finds what the last one set, once per object.
+    expect(started.world.log).toEqual(['Step: found closed', 'Step: found closed']);
+  });
+
   it('reaches every instance when the machine is global, and enters its start once', () => {
     const f = makeSpriteScene();
     const machine = makeMachine(f);