diff --git a/hermes_state_rewind.py b/hermes_state_rewind.py
index 1ea08214d1..37ce926a6f 100644
--- a/hermes_state_rewind.py
+++ b/hermes_state_rewind.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class RewindTargetUnavailableError(ValueError):
 class RewindOutcome:
     prefix: List[Dict[str, Any]]  # history to install: the warm prefix when ``warm_history`` was given, else durable
     live_view: Dict[str, Any]  # canonical live projection of the rewound turn (prefill / retry source)
-    live_text: str
+    live_text: str  # lossless retry text when ``require_retryable``, else the display flattening (prefill)
     rewound_count: int
     turns_undone: int
 
@@ -85,8 +85,9 @@ class SessionRewindMixin:
             prefix, warm_live_view = history_before_user_originated_turn(warm, warm_user[user_ordinal])
             if _comparison_content(live_view) != _comparison_content(warm_live_view):
                 raise RuntimeError(_HISTORY_CHANGED)
-        if require_retryable:
-            retryable_user_text(live_view.get("content"))
+        # Retry re-sends the stored bytes: ``"".join`` of the text parts, never the "\n"-joined display
+        # flattening (wire bytes == stored bytes; ``"ab"`` must not come back as ``"a\nb"``).
+        live_text = retryable_user_text(live_view.get("content")) if require_retryable else None
         target_row_id = target.get("_row_id")
         if not isinstance(target_row_id, int):
             raise RuntimeError("rewind target has no durable row identity")
@@ -113,5 +114,6 @@ class SessionRewindMixin:
                 if isinstance(row_id := durable_message.get("_row_id"), int):
                     warm["_row_id"] = row_id
         return RewindOutcome(
-            prefix=prefix, live_view=live_view, live_text=flatten_message_text(live_view.get("content")),
+            prefix=prefix, live_view=live_view,
+            live_text=live_text if live_text is not None else flatten_message_text(live_view.get("content")),
             rewound_count=int(result.get("rewound_count", 0)), turns_undone=len(durable_user) - user_ordinal)
diff --git a/tests/gateway/test_retry_replacement.py b/tests/gateway/test_retry_replacement.py
index ed3f35f32f..ca5bcf1050 100644
--- a/tests/gateway/test_retry_replacement.py
+++ b/tests/gateway/test_retry_replacement.py
@@ -110,6 +110,37 @@ def test_rewind_session_keeps_pending_recovery_state_when_lease_rejects(
     assert session_id not in store._transcript_append_failures
 
 
+def test_rewind_session_retry_text_is_the_stored_bytes_for_multipart_carriers(
+    tmp_path, monkeypatch
+):
+    """/retry re-sends exactly what was stored: a carrier split across text parts comes back as the
+    parts' concatenation (``"".join``), not the "\\n"-joined display flattening."""
+    import hermes_state
+    from agent.context_compressor import retryable_user_text
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(hermes_state, "DEFAULT_DB_PATH", tmp_path / "state.db")
+    store = SessionStore(sessions_dir=tmp_path, config=GatewayConfig())
+    session_id = "rewind-composite-multipart"
+    store._db.create_session(session_id=session_id, source="test")
+    parts = [
+        {"type": "text", "text": _composite_carrier("REAL")["content"]},
+        {"type": "text", "text": " ASK"},
+        {"type": "text", "text": "\ncontinued"},
+    ]
+    store._db.append_message(session_id, "user", parts)
+    store._db.append_message(session_id, "assistant", "old answer")
+    stored = store._db.get_messages_as_conversation(session_id)[0]["content"]
+    assert isinstance(stored, list) and len(stored) == 3
+
+    result = store.rewind_session(session_id, require_retryable_composite=True)
+
+    assert result is not None
+    expected = "".join(p["text"] for p in stored).split(_SUMMARY_END_MARKER, 1)[1].lstrip("\n")
+    assert result["target_text"] == "REAL ASK\ncontinued" == expected
+    assert result["target_text"] == retryable_user_text(
+        [{"type": "text", "text": "REAL"}, {"type": "text", "text": " ASK"}, {"type": "text", "text": "\ncontinued"}])
+
+
 def test_rewind_session_surfaces_unretryable_media_before_mutation(
     tmp_path, monkeypatch
 ):