The hand-fragment layer was popping in immediately while the rest of the figure animated, looking detached. Slides in from the left on the same timing curve as left-m (translateX -14% → 0, 800ms / 150ms delay) so the finger reads as part of her grip arriving with her arm. Reduced-motion users still get the final state instantly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>