diff --git a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiBoundedSet.vue b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiBoundedSet.vue
index 6a7951514..fd7164abe 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiBoundedSet.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiBoundedSet.vue
@@ -91,7 +91,14 @@ useShadowStyles(
       {{ T('gospelInternet.bounded.failed', 'The reached/unreached table could not be loaded, so this chart is not drawn.') }}
       <span class="gbs-warn" dir="ltr">{{ failed }}</span>
     </p>
-    <template v-else>
+      <!-- LOADING IS NOT EMPTY. The table is 2.6 MB, and until it arrives the joined set is
+           legitimately zero — so without this the panel drew a chart of nothing and captioned it
+           with a confident 0. A reader cannot tell that from a real answer of none, which is the
+           same defect as a join failure reported as a fact about a people. -->
+      <p v-else-if="!rows" class="gbs-cap" aria-live="polite">
+        {{ T('gospelInternet.loadingTable', 'Loading the table…') }}
+      </p>
+    <template v-else-if="rows">
       <!-- The whiteboard map replaces the static figure: the reader can pan and zoom, and group
            names appear once they are close enough for the names to be readable. The chart still
            claims one thing — which side of the line a group is on — so nothing here encodes
diff --git a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSet.vue b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSet.vue
index d6f7540e2..ea099fc3e 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSet.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSet.vue
@@ -152,7 +152,14 @@ useShadowStyles(
       {{ T('gospelInternet.centered.failed', 'The neighbour table could not be loaded, so this chart is not drawn.') }}
       <span class="gcs-warn" dir="ltr">{{ failed }}</span>
     </p>
-    <template v-else>
+      <!-- LOADING IS NOT EMPTY. The table is 2.6 MB, and until it arrives the joined set is
+           legitimately zero — so without this the panel drew a chart of nothing and captioned it
+           with a confident 0. A reader cannot tell that from a real answer of none, which is the
+           same defect as a join failure reported as a fact about a people. -->
+      <p v-else-if="!near" class="gcs-cap" aria-live="polite">
+        {{ T('gospelInternet.loadingTable', 'Loading the table…') }}
+      </p>
+    <template v-else-if="near">
       <div class="gcs-fig">
         <!-- The figure is the whiteboard map, not SVG: the Driver asked for pan, zoom and labels
              that appear as you zoom in, and the engine gives tiling and label collision that an