diff --git a/Behaviors.md b/Behaviors.md
index e788fec..3874a9f 100644
--- a/Behaviors.md
+++ b/Behaviors.md
@@ -264,8 +264,13 @@ playing use the same two words.
   each one on its own, so a pair fed by a number and a text shows two colours and thereby says why
   the output stays grey. That colour is paint only (`paintType`): the port itself keeps taking
   everything, and every `any` input is painted this way, not just one in a group. The output falls back to `any` whenever an input is
-  unconnected or the two disagree, and the type does **not** travel through a second such node —
-  it is read from neighbours with a fixed type only, so a chain cannot ask itself in circles.
+  unconnected or the two disagree. The type **travels through a chain** of such nodes: a `Select`
+  fed by two `First not empty` that both hand out an animation is an animation port too, and one
+  mixed or open input anywhere in the chain makes everything behind it `any` again. Nodes that
+  feed each other in a circle stay `any` — the question of what feeds a group remembers whom it
+  has asked (`shapedDef` in `core/graph/nested.ts`), so a circle ends instead of asking forever,
+  and a node feeding both inputs of the next is asked once. Nothing is cached between two
+  changes: a chain of 50 resolves in about 10 ms on the slowest machine measured.
   An edge that a new type makes invalid is left alone and **drawn in the danger colour**; nothing
   is disconnected behind your back. All of this is the editor's view — at run time every value
   travels the same way either way.
diff --git a/Development.md b/Development.md
index ac7dd6d..5cd71db 100644
--- a/Development.md
+++ b/Development.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ php tests/php/accounts.test.php                               # the API's accoun
                                                               #   has and the web server's container has not (SKIP there)
 php tests/php/snapshots.test.php                              # the snapshot store (#231), the same way
 php tests/php/releases.test.php                               # the release store (#266), the same way
-node tools/seed-e2e.mjs && node tools/e2e.mjs                 # 1671 editor checks, screenshots in /tmp/gm-e2e-*.png
+node tools/seed-e2e.mjs && node tools/e2e.mjs                 # 1673 editor checks, screenshots in /tmp/gm-e2e-*.png
 GM_STEPS=20 node tools/e2e.mjs                                # or 1-12, or 6,20 — a subset while working on one step
 ./e2e.sh start [GM_STEPS]                                     # the same run detached, see below
 ./e2e.sh status                                               # live progress, or the last run's result