diff --git a/tests/test_lesson_insight_round_trip.py b/tests/test_lesson_insight_round_trip.py
index 8db7698..dd6bde4 100644
--- a/tests/test_lesson_insight_round_trip.py
+++ b/tests/test_lesson_insight_round_trip.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 import pytest
 
 from scribe.services import lessons as lessons_svc
-from tests.helpers import fake_note
+from tests.helpers import fake_lesson
 
 WHAT = "A column written once at create time is a snapshot, not a field"
 
@@ -92,10 +92,18 @@ IDS = [s[0] for s in SHAPES]
 
 def _stored(trigger: str, insight: str, sources: list[int]):
     """A lesson exactly as `create_lesson` writes it — title, body and mirror
-    composed together, which is the only way a real row is ever written."""
+    composed together, which is the only way a real row is ever written.
+
+    `fake_lesson` rather than `fake_note`, and the difference is load-bearing
+    here: `lesson_sources` falls back to `arose_from_id`, which on a bare
+    MagicMock auto-creates truthy and coerces to `1`. A no-sources shape then
+    recomposes with `**Learned from:** #1` and the round trip fails for a
+    reason that has nothing to do with the trigger. `fake_lesson` pins that
+    field to None — note #2109's point, which is why the fixture exists.
+    """
     title, body = lessons_svc.lesson_document(WHAT, trigger, insight, sources)
     data = lessons_svc.compose_data(WHAT, trigger, sources)
-    return fake_note(title=title, body=body, data=data)
+    return fake_lesson(title=title, body=body, data=data)
 
 
 def _edit(note):
@@ -149,7 +157,7 @@ def test_ten_edits_do_not_grow_the_record(_name, trigger, insight, sources):
     first = note.body
     for _ in range(10):
         title, body = _edit(note)
-        note = fake_note(title=title, body=body, data=note.data)
+        note = fake_lesson(title=title, body=body, data=note.data)
     assert note.body == first, (
         f"body grew by {len(note.body) - len(first)} characters over ten no-op edits"
     )
@@ -180,7 +188,7 @@ def test_the_insight_is_derived_from_the_row_not_from_the_body_alone():
     note = _stored(MANY_PARAGRAPHS, INSIGHT, [])
     assert lessons_svc.lesson_insight(note) == INSIGHT.strip()
     # The same body with the mirror removed cannot reach the same answer.
-    bare = fake_note(title=note.title, body=note.body, data=None)
+    bare = fake_lesson(title=note.title, body=note.body, data=None)
     assert lessons_svc.lesson_insight(bare) != INSIGHT.strip()
 
 
@@ -190,7 +198,7 @@ def test_without_a_mirror_a_one_paragraph_trigger_still_strips():
     correctly for the common shape — degrading to the old behaviour rather
     than to nothing."""
     _, body = lessons_svc.lesson_document(WHAT, ONE_LINE, INSIGHT, [4199])
-    bare = fake_note(title="t", body=body, data=None)
+    bare = fake_lesson(title="t", body=body, data=None)
     assert lessons_svc.lesson_insight(bare) == INSIGHT.strip()
 
 
@@ -203,7 +211,7 @@ def test_a_stale_mirror_falls_back_rather_than_cutting_the_wrong_thing():
     the insight, so the removal happens only on an exact match and the
     line-wise fallback takes over otherwise. Nothing authored is lost."""
     _, body = lessons_svc.lesson_document(WHAT, ONE_LINE, INSIGHT, [])
-    stale = fake_note(
+    stale = fake_lesson(
         title="t", body=body,
         data={"what": WHAT, lessons_svc.TRIGGER_KEY: "a trigger that is not in this body"},
     )