Three timed renders through the worker took 8-24 s; the one that sat for 2+ min was Venice's queue stalling that job. A second copy after 60 s bounds the wait at about normal + 60 s for an extra 3 cents on a bad day. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01K6897PWcUEwHiqZMcVnNF6