A suspended parent retains coverage of references pointing to its own sweep. These are previously completed child keys, in its actual ordering at suspension.
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A reference still pointing to a suspended ancestor is literally the reference retained there. Covered-reference data is stored at suspension; incumbent growth is supplied separately by the established native scope.
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Native local operations preserving the reference labels and their ancestor counters retain all covered-reference associations.
Suspending a covered parent and performing the actual sparse child operation extends the reference associations. Cache invalidation and first-path coset bookkeeping do not change either reference.
A return retains earlier references whenever its counters still name them. A first-child update points to the current level and therefore cannot be mistaken for a reference belonging to an older suspended parent.