diff --git a/HANDOFF.md b/HANDOFF.md
index 3a2efa0..de14d65 100644
--- a/HANDOFF.md
+++ b/HANDOFF.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ equivalent for and never will.
 [CLAUDE.md](CLAUDE.md) has the architecture and the SQLite traps. This document is the compliance
 scoreboard and the things that are true right now but not obvious from either.
 
-**2986 tests green on net9.0 and net10.0** — 2915 in `Fisher.Tests`, 40 in
+**2990 tests green on net9.0 and net10.0** — 2919 in `Fisher.Tests`, 40 in
 `Fisher.AspNetCore.Tests` and 31 in `Fisher.EntityFrameworkCore.Tests`. 779 of
 them are shared cross-store compliance tests — 548 event sourcing and 231 document.
 On JasperFx **2.98.0** / Weasel **9.48.0**.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4a7928d..5277ba4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ process**. There is no server to install, nothing to provision, and nothing to k
 > `Fisher.AspNetCore` and `Fisher.EntityFrameworkCore` companion packages all work and are tested.
 >
 > Fisher passes **all 63 suites and 779 tests** it enrolls from `JasperFx.Events.ComplianceTests`,
-> the shared cross-store suite Marten and Polecat also enroll in, alongside its own 2,915.
+> the shared cross-store suite Marten and Polecat also enroll in, alongside its own 2,919.
 >
 > That suite pins **API portability, not behavioural equivalence** — code written against one store
 > compiles and runs against another. It does not pin that the three behave identically, and they do
diff --git a/src/Fisher.Tests/Events/natural_keys.cs b/src/Fisher.Tests/Events/natural_keys.cs
index 19c0bb6..9e744d2 100644
--- a/src/Fisher.Tests/Events/natural_keys.cs
+++ b/src/Fisher.Tests/Events/natural_keys.cs
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ private DocumentStore StoreFor(bool conjoined)
             {
                 o.DatabaseSchemaName = "tenanted";
                 o.Events.TenancyStyle = TenancyStyle.Conjoined;
+                o.Schema.For<Order>().MultiTenanted();
             }
 
             o.Projections.Add(new OrderProjection(), ProjectionLifecycle.Inline);
@@ -201,6 +202,60 @@ await Should.ThrowAsync<UnknownNaturalKeyException>(() =>
             check.Events.FetchForWritingByNaturalKey<Order, string>("ORD-ARCHIVED", Token));
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     fisher#522: the lookup has no foreign key, so a tombstone has to remove the row itself or the
+    ///     key can never be claimed again.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task a_tombstoned_streams_natural_key_can_be_claimed_by_a_new_stream()
+    {
+        var streamId = await StartOrder("ORD-TOMB");
+
+        await using (var session = _store.LightweightSession())
+        {
+            session.Events.TombstoneStream(streamId);
+            await session.SaveChangesAsync(Token);
+        }
+
+        var newStream = await StartOrder("ORD-TOMB");
+
+        await using var check = _store.LightweightSession();
+        (await check.Events.FetchForWritingByNaturalKey<Order, string>("ORD-TOMB", Token))
+            .Id.ShouldBe(newStream);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task under_conjoined_tenancy_only_the_tombstoned_tenants_key_goes()
+    {
+        await using var store = StoreFor(conjoined: true);
+        await store.ApplyAllConfiguredChangesToDatabaseAsync(Token);
+
+        var streamId = Guid.NewGuid();
+        foreach (var tenant in new[] { "a", "b" })
+        {
+            await using var session = store.LightweightSession(tenant);
+            session.Events.StartStream<Order>(tenant == "a" ? streamId : Guid.NewGuid(), new OrderPlaced("ORD-SHARED"));
+            await session.SaveChangesAsync(Token);
+        }
+
+        await using (var session = store.LightweightSession("a"))
+        {
+            session.Events.TombstoneStream(streamId);
+            await session.SaveChangesAsync(Token);
+        }
+
+        // Tenant b keeps its key
+        await using (var b = store.LightweightSession("b"))
+        {
+            await b.Events.FetchForWritingByNaturalKey<Order, string>("ORD-SHARED", Token);
+        }
+
+        // Tenant a can claim it again
+        var again = await StartOrder("ORD-SHARED", store, "a");
+        await using var a = store.LightweightSession("a");
+        (await a.Events.FetchForWritingByNaturalKey<Order, string>("ORD-SHARED", Token)).Id.ShouldBe(again);
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public async Task an_unknown_key_is_refused_by_name()
     {
diff --git a/src/Fisher/Events/EventGraph.cs b/src/Fisher/Events/EventGraph.cs
index 6b994dc..a1e9997 100644
--- a/src/Fisher/Events/EventGraph.cs
+++ b/src/Fisher/Events/EventGraph.cs
@@ -128,6 +128,11 @@ internal string QuotedNaturalKeyTableName(Type aggregateType)
     private static string NaturalKeySuffixFor(Type aggregateType)
         => $"natural_key_{ToEventTypeName(aggregateType.Name)}";
 
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     The natural keys the registered aggregate projections declare.
+    /// </summary>
+    internal IReadOnlyList<NaturalKeyDefinition> NaturalKeyDefinitions() => _options.Projections.NaturalKeys;
+
     internal IEnumerable<NaturalKeyTable> BuildNaturalKeyTables(
         IEnumerable<NaturalKeyDefinition> definitions)
         => definitions.Select(definition => new NaturalKeyTable(this, definition));
diff --git a/src/Fisher/Events/Storage/EventAuxiliaryOperationsForSqlite.cs b/src/Fisher/Events/Storage/EventAuxiliaryOperationsForSqlite.cs
index 352ea75..c5871fd 100644
--- a/src/Fisher/Events/Storage/EventAuxiliaryOperationsForSqlite.cs
+++ b/src/Fisher/Events/Storage/EventAuxiliaryOperationsForSqlite.cs
@@ -94,6 +94,22 @@ select seq_id from {_events.EventsTableName}
                             """);
         }
 
+        // The stream's natural key goes with it (fisher#522): the lookup table has no foreign key, so
+        // nothing else would remove the row, and a key that outlived its stream could never be claimed
+        // again. Scoped to the tenant under conjoined tenancy, where other tenants keep theirs.
+        var streamColumn = _events.StreamIdentity == JasperFx.Events.StreamIdentity.AsGuid ? "stream_id" : "stream_key";
+        var tenantTerm = _events.TenancyStyle == JasperFx.MultiTenancy.TenancyStyle.Conjoined
+            ? " and tenant_id = @tenant_id"
+            : "";
+
+        foreach (var definition in _events.NaturalKeyDefinitions())
+        {
+            builder.Append($"""
+                            delete from {_events.QuotedNaturalKeyTableName(definition.AggregateType)}
+                            where {streamColumn} = @id{tenantTerm};
+                            """);
+        }
+
         builder.Append($"""
                         delete from {_events.EventsTableName}
                         where stream_id = @id and tenant_id = @tenant_id;