The shared prune tail requests a short filter only after admitting its implicit pair at a level different from the saved boundary.
The implicit prune tail returns no deeper than the parent of its saved cheap boundary, including the signed-to-natural conversion.
Both implicit-pair leaf actions use the same bounded return target.
With both saved ancestors below the node, every leaf return leaves that node. The implicit return also respects the saved cheap boundary.
A short code-2 return targets the saved canonical ancestor.
A short return from a bad or better leaf satisfies the implicit-pair admission test used by that very leaf action.
Each short-prune request exposes the pair admitted by the same leaf action. Only code 2 and the implicit prune tail can set this flag.
Both filters read the same workspace before and after parent recovery. This lets the restored partition justify the filter that ran just before it.